Chapter 408: Secret Meeting
Zuo Wanqiu saw Duan Qing was so confident, so she didn't continue to dwell on this matter.
"Since there's nothing to do now, why don't we go to the Dameng Sect earlier to get a good position." Zuo Wanqiu suggested to Duan Qing.
Duan Qing pondered for a moment and nodded. "Okay!"
He originally planned to get familiar with some acupoints in the room before noon, but thinking of the situation yesterday, he was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to find a place to stand if he went too late.
Although he still had some concerns about Lin Tiansheng and the old man, since he had been recognized by the two yesterday, he would be suspicious if he was so timid.
"Then I'll go call Sister Lin and Fellow Daoist Yu." Zuo Wanqiu said with a smile.
Soon, Zuo Wanqiu called Lin Ziyu and Yu Fan together, and the four of them set off for the Dameng Sect.
It was not long after dawn, and there were almost no cultivators on the street. The most common people on the road were all kinds of mortals who got up early to do business.
When Duan Qing and others came to the outside of the Dameng Sect's mountain and river, except for the four people, there were almost no other people beside the stone bridge. Even the people from the Dameng Sect who were guarding the stone bridge yesterday to check the identity of the cultivators were nowhere to be seen.
The four people went unimpeded and went straight into the belly of the Dameng Sect.
As soon as they entered the belly of the mountain, they saw from a distance that the open space in the center of the first floor was densely packed with cultivators who had not left last night, about half of the number of yesterday.
Duan Qing and others saw this and flew directly to the position of yesterday and landed.
Duan Qing looked around and found that the cultivators still around were roughly the same as yesterday, and their positions had hardly changed.
It seems that it is not accidental that their positions have not been occupied.
In fact, this is the unwritten rule of the Dream Wheel Conference. First come first served, and you cannot occupy other people's positions without authorization.
After the four people returned to their positions yesterday, as time went by, the cultivators who returned to Dameng City last night and settled in the second floor of Dameng Sect gradually returned to the open space on the first floor of Dameng Sect.
The originally calm crowd gradually became lively as more and more monks returned.
Not far to the left of Duan Qing, the conversation between several monks caught Duan Qing's attention.
"Brother Huang, I heard that two female disciples of Mingshanmen, who live in the same inn as me, have disappeared!"
"What, this is true, Brother Ning, are you kidding?"
"Yes, this is true. It is said that not only Mingshanmen, but also Qiulin Sect in the next inn has a female disciple missing."
"No way, where did you and Brother Ning hear this?"
"Hey, Brother Huang, you didn't go back to the inn last night, so you don't know. The inn we stayed in was searched thoroughly by Mingshanmen."
"Yes, I heard that one of the two missing female disciples of Mingshanmen is the daughter of the head of Mingshanmen!"
"It's really weird, why are the missing female monks? It's a pity that only three of us from the Seven Swords Sect came this time!"
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Hearing the conversation of the three people, Duan Qing couldn't help but think of Heishi.
According to Tian Zheng and the others, Heishi only captured Senior Sister Yan and Senior Sister Hua, but ignored them.
Could it be that the missing female cultivators from Mingshanmen and Qiulin Sect were also caused by Heishi?
This possibility is very high!
After Heishi absorbed the Yin Qi of the hundreds of cultivators who suddenly appeared last night, his cultivation level soared to the late stage of the Spiritual Sea Realm.
It seems that he relies on killing cultivators and taking away spiritual power to improve his cultivation!
The hundreds of cultivators last night were the puppets he sent out!
In the Stone Forest and Ghost Forest, he had seen Heishi controlling Tang Tian and another young woman.
This person's methods are really cruel!
Judging from the hundreds of puppets last night, there are definitely not a few cultivators in Dameng City who have been killed!
Just when Duan Qing speculated that Heishi was the real culprit behind it, in a secret room on the third floor of the Dameng Sect mountain belly.
Lin Kedi, the head of the Dameng Sect, and the old man who attended the Qingjiang Boat Meeting with Lin Tiansheng were discussing something with the other three people.
Duan Qing had seen two of the other three people, namely Tie Shiniu from the Xiaomeng Sect and the middle-aged woman named Lan who led the Yunmeng Sect.
The last person was a young man in a black robe with a face as white as paper.
"Head of the Dameng Sect, are you telling the truth?" Tie Shiniu looked at Lin Kedi with a serious expression.
"It is absolutely true. According to statistics from our sect, at least three hundred female monks disappeared in Dameng City in the past three days! Especially last night, at least hundreds of people disappeared!" Lin Kedi sat upright, his expression was also quite solemn.
"Who is so bold that he dared to take advantage of the Lunmeng Conference to do such a ridiculous thing!" The middle-aged woman of the Yunmeng Sect said coldly.
"Ridiculous! Three hundred people are missing. Don't you think it's too light for Fellow Daoist Lan to say ridiculous!" Tie Shiniu squinted at the middle-aged woman and was very dissatisfied with her description of the matter as ridiculous.
"You...!" The middle-aged woman was choked by Tieshiniu and didn't know how to refute for a while.
She was a woman in Xiaomeng Sect, and she was very concerned about the disappearance of women in the city.
But she didn't think the missing women had been killed, so she used the word absurd.
"Okay, the two Taoist friends, please put the overall situation first. What Tie said is right. This matter is definitely not absurd. According to the report of my disciples, the missing women have been confirmed dead by their own forces."
The middle-aged woman and Tieshiniu were silent when they heard this. There are many ways to confirm the death of a person. The most common one is through the mark of the sound transmission jade slip.
Who is so cruel and ruthless to kill so many female monks!
Seeing the silence of the two, Lin Kedi looked at the black-robed young man who had never said a word.
"Fellow Daoist Ouyang, among the four sects of our Dream God, your White Dream Sect is the most secretive. Do you have any way to find the murderer?"
The black-robed young man smiled lightly when he heard this, and wrinkles appeared on his face. "If the victim's body is still there, we may be able to find the real murderer with our White Dream Sect's dream-finding method."
Lin Kedi smiled knowingly, as if he had expected the black-robed man to say this. "Thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Ouyang!"
After saying this, Lin Kedi turned his head and instructed the old man who had been standing silently beside him. "Pass on my order and find the body of the missing woman as soon as possible!"
"Yes!" The old man immediately took the order and left.
After the old man left, Tie Shi Niu suggested to Lin Kedi: "Master Lin, since such a change has occurred in this Dream Round Conference, is it more appropriate to postpone the conference first!"
"Fellow Daoist Tie's words are very reasonable. In my opinion, it is better to postpone the Dream Round Conference and catch the real murderer!" The middle-aged woman echoed.
Tie Shi Niu glanced at the middle-aged woman in surprise. He didn't expect that Lan Mengdie, who had always been at odds with him, would agree with him.
Lin Ke Di frowned. "Friend Tie Dao, what you said is wrong. If we suspend the Lun Meng Conference, the thief will definitely notice it, which will alert the enemy and be bad."