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Night.
Little Platform Mountain, Xuanxu Temple.
Yu Yaoer, accompanied by Jin Xu, landed at the open space in front of the temple gate.
This time there was no wolf or dog "symphony".
Jin Xu guessed Little White was probably too tired, hence lacking the energy for a welcoming ceremony.
Yu Yaoer went to the backyard first, unusually she didn't head straight to the kitchen upon her return, and instead started looking for Little White.
"Lord Xu, Lord Xu, you must come and see!"
Upon hearing the call, a young Taoist who was still at the great hall, stepped through a small door and arrived at the backyard, following Little Fish Demon's line of sight he discovered Little White was hung upside down from the Big Willow Tree, already reverted to its true form.
Upon closer inspection, he found a few words written on the ground beneath Little White.
"Suggestion, switch, for, another, demon pet."
Looking at this fragmented sentence, it was clearly left by the Guardian Spirit Elder.
"Let's get her down first, be careful."
Jin Xu instructed.
Upon hearing her Lord's command, Yu Yaoer dared to move forward and rescue Little White, considering she had been thrown out by the Big Willow Trees just that morning.
"Ah, Little Yu sister, temple master, you've returned."
The husky that was rescued, opened its dog eyes and spoke with a confused look.
Seemed like it just woke up.
"How did you end up hanging there?"
The little Taoist was curious.
He thought of waking the Guardian Spirit Elder once, either by using the Ten-thousand-year-old Soul Nourishing Liquid, or by asking the Little Fish Demon to stew some soup.
How did Little White manage it?
"Uh, cough... Temple Master, do you notice anything missing from this tree?"
Sleepy-eyed, Little White's dog head showed a trace of guilt.
Missing something?
Jin Xu examined the Big Willow Tree before him.
Nothing seemed amiss from the front.
The trunk looked intact.
There was no sign at the base of it being dug out.
The back... the back... where are the leaves and branches at the back!?
"Did you do this?"
The little Taoist pointed to the bare trunk.
The guilty husky nodded.
No wonder the Guardian Spirit Elder was awoken.
Who wouldn't wake up if half of their hair was plucked out!
Jin Xu had never kept a pet before, but he felt he should do something about the situation.
Teach it a lesson, give it a beating? No, it might easily kill it.
Starve it for three days? But Little White was already fasting.
Find a screaming chicken, and pluck its head off in front of her? No, that wouldn't work either, and he had nowhere to find a screaming chicken.
What to do when your shape-shifting demon pet causes trouble at home?
Waiting online, quite urgent.
...
In the end, Jin Xu decided to let Yu Yaoer manage her own demon pet.
Using a pet to control a pet.
The Little Fish Demon was essentially promoted from being an animal in the zoo to becoming the zookeeper.
The little Taoist told her his decision, and Yu Yaoer patted her chest in assurance.
"Lord Xu, don't worry, I'll definitely keep Little White in line!"
Then she added another remark.
"It's just, Lord Xu, I have a problem."
"What's the problem?"
"I can't beat Little White..."
"..."
Jin Xu turned to look for Little White, hoping to talk to her again.
But he found that Little White had already laid down by the well and fallen asleep.
It seemed like chasing her own tail all day and night, and gnawing on half of the Big Willow Tree branches had completely exhausted her.
The little Taoist thought, grinding his molars.
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Forget it, I should just go back to my room and carry out today's cultivation plan,
After notifying Yu Yaoer, Jin Xu returned to his own room to cultivate.
The Little Fish Demon glanced at Little White lying by the well, blinked her big eyes, and then looked at her young master's tightly closed room door.
A slight smile curled the corners of her mouth before she hummed a tune and jumped into the well.
She was going to take her beauty sleep.
The bright moon hung high, and stars filled the sky.
The unnamed Taoist temple on Little Platform Mountain gradually fell silent.
...
Late at night.
In Qian Deng Town, within Yuhua Temple,
Xu Qian was leading a group of constables digging in the backyard.
"Eh, eh, found it, we found it," a young constable shouted.
"It's not like you've dug up gold, what are you yelling for?" an older squad leader in his forties chided, lightly hitting the back of the young constable's head.
Turning around, he respectfully said to Xu Qian, "Lord Xu, there are indeed two bodies under the big tree in the backyard."
"Bring them up."
"Sure thing."
The squad leader turned and signaled to a couple of men to get into the hole and carry the bodies up.
The junior constable wanted to follow down but was yanked back.
"You kid, what's the fuss about? Go stand over there."
Blocked by the squad leader, the junior constable walked to the side with a look of grievance.
He muttered under his breath, "It's just my uncle, always keeping me out of things."
The two bodies wrapped in straw mats were lifted up and placed in front of Xu Qian.
Using a long knife to open the straw mats, two decomposing bodies were revealed to everyone present.
It was summer and they had been buried in the ground for several days; maggots could be seen crawling in and out of the bodies.
However, Xu Qian and the constables seemed quite accustomed to it, showing no sign of discomfort.
Only the young constable, after taking one look, ran off to one side to vomit.
"Hehe, country bumpkin, hasn't seen much of the world," explained the old squad leader.
Xu Qian nodded and said with a smile, "We all went through that."
Then he took a small mirror engraved with the Bagua from his storage bag, chanted a spell, and a ray of clear light shot out from the mirror, shining on the two bodies.
This was also one of the standard Magic Artifacts issued by the night watchmen, mainly used to detect whether any toxins, resentful spirits, traps, and so on remained on the bodies.
Seeing that the clear light didn't fluctuate, Xu Qian instructed the squad leader to call over the coroner.
Specialization is of great importance; while there might be experts in examining bodies among the night watchmen, Xu Qian clearly wasn't skilled in this area.
After a thorough examination.
"Reporting to Lord Xu, both of the deceased were ordinary people. I probed their bodies with spiritual power and found no residual spiritual energy reactions. Their fatal injuries were to the back of the head, likely caused by blunt force trauma or an ordinary martial artist's strike," reported the coroner.
Hearing the coroner's words, Xu Qian was startled. This was different from his previous conjecture that a shape-shifted giant rabbit killed the monks in the temple.
He felt his brain wasn't quite up to the task.
The killer wasn't that giant rabbit but someone else? But who would kill two ordinary monks in Yuhua Temple for no reason? What he had thought to be the Demon Sect's disturbance had now turned into a murder case with lots of doubts.
Xu Qian lowered his head and looked at the Transformation Fruit he was holding in his palm.
He was tempted to simply blame the deaths on the Demon Sect since he had already obtained the Transformation Fruit.
But...
"Mr. Li was right; it turns out I am indeed a softhearted person," Xu Qian murmured to himself.
"What's this? Have you started gossiping behind your superior's back?"
A dignified middle-aged male voice rang out.
Xu Qian looked up, following the direction from which the voice came.
A middle-aged man in a green official robe, his features stern,
stood on a Flying Boat, holding scrolls in his hand.
At the feet of the middle-aged man was a little bald novice, lying motionless.
"Mr. Li!"
The newcomer was Xu Qian's direct superior, a Void Refinement Realm powerhouse, Li Mi!
ps: Received another monthly ticket, happy.
Welcome all readers and elders to provide suggestions. Despite being a newcomer, Fēngshēng has a good attitude towards improvement.
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