kingnovel Chapter 451: Blackmail letter, everyone shows off their skills.
Chapter 451: Blackmail letter, everyone shows off their skills.
The head of the Jia family sat in the lobby and called Li Changxiao and others to read the blackmail letter together. The content of the letter was roughly the same as before, and the blackmail amount was also more than ten thousand taels.
It was simply an exorbitant mouth. Although the Jia family was a noble family that had been passed down for hundreds of years, their wealth was not picked up. Tens of thousands of taels of gold were almost drained out after just a few times.
In order to raise money, the Jia family has sold more than a dozen shops. It is no exaggeration to say that they have been pulling out muscles and bones.
But they had to raise money. The head of the Jia family rubbed his temples, ordering people to raise money while placing his hopes on Li Changxiao and others.
After Li Changxiao finished reading the envelope, a strange light flashed. At this time, an old man wearing a purple round hat and a colorful robe took the envelope, pinched his fingers, and performed a spell.
This person called himself the Three-eyed Old Man. After performing several spells, he took off the round hat on his head, revealing a line on his forehead. The line was black and had a Taoist charm.
It slowly opened, revealing an eye, and the old man's face gradually became younger.
More and more handsome.
"So it's him." Li Changxiao muttered in his heart. He had heard of this person, a highly regarded genius in Xuanyu.
His name is "Dugu Hou", and he is the successor of a mysterious sword sect in Xuanyu. That sword sect accepts disciples once every hundred years, and only one person at a time.
The vertical eye on the forehead is extremely mysterious. If someone looks at it for a long time, their mind will be drawn into it and unable to extricate themselves.
The head of the Jia family was shocked. The methods of the cultivators were indeed unpredictable and mysterious. It was probably that only they could find the heir of the Jia family.
Dugu Hou put away his magic and turned back into his old appearance. "The letter came from the east of the city."
Hou Shao bowed in admiration, "Brother Dugu is really amazing. He saw the clues at a glance."
Dugu Hou smiled modestly, "No, I can only see a little bit of cause and effect."
The vertical eye on his forehead was when he was young and met a wandering monk who was begging for alms. He gave the monk a bowl of rice. The monk saw that his inspiration was too strong and if he didn't open a crack, he would definitely lose his mind and become a fool. So he gently touched his forehead. After Dugu Hou returned, his forehead was itchy, red and swollen, and he had a high fever. After three days and three nights of illness, a crack opened on his forehead. Later, it became a vertical eye, and you can see the thread of cause and effect.
As soon as the blackmail letter was written, the cause and effect were clear, so he immediately opened his eyes to track it and saw a faint thread of cause and effect floating faintly to the east.
Therefore, the conclusion is drawn.
The head of the Jia family asked them to rescue the family's descendants, so they naturally regarded this as their top priority. As for who the kidnappers were, it was important but also unimportant.
Now that the approximate location of the letter has been determined, the next step is to look for it. Li Changxiao and others left from the back door, mixed in with the crowd, and headed towards the east.
At this time, another old man showed his divine power. He held a compass in his hand and fiddled with it as he walked.
Hou Shao told Li Changxiao that the old man's name was "Long Qi" and he was a disciple of the Second Suan Sect.
In Fuyao Tianxia, the Shensuan Sect is the undisputed number one among all the fortune-telling sects.
The next is the Ce Yan Sect. Although they rank second, they are much better than the Shen Suan Sect in terms of brilliant strategies and they are used to relying on the compass.
The disciples of the Divine Calculation Sect are all-powerful and do not need to rely on anything. Such people are the most terrifying after their spiritual energy is exhausted.
Even if they were just mortals without any spiritual energy, they could easily stir up the situation. It was a pity that they were all destroyed, otherwise the current situation would probably have changed a lot. Although the Ceyan Sect did not have the God of the Shensuan Sect, it was not difficult to calculate the origin of the envelope at this moment.
Finally, they locked onto a shop. Several people including Hou Shao and Li Changxiao stepped into the shop together and found that it was a calligraphy and painting shop. A pale-faced scholar was sitting in the shop.
The blackmail letter was written by him. Holding a dragon-headed cane in one hand, the old woman, hunched over, wearing brocade clothes and a hat that looked like a Buddha but wasn't, grabbed the pale-faced scholar's neck with one hand and asked him where the heir of the Jia family was.
The pale-faced scholar's face turned purple, but he couldn't utter a word. Hou Shao pulled the old woman away. If he didn't stop her, the pale-faced scholar would kill someone.
Hou Shao slapped the blackmail letter on the scholar's desk and asked, "Do you recognize this letter?"
The scholar did not dare to neglect it. He took the letter and looked at it, then shook his head repeatedly, "I don't recognize it, I don't recognize it."
"You still dare to lie?!" The old woman glared at the pale-faced scholar with an invisible aura, and the murderous spirit went straight to his heart.
This alone is enough to scare some people with weak minds to death.
Hou Shao frowned and waved his hand to disperse the aura. If this pale-faced scholar was frightened silly, the clue would be lost.
Li Changxiao glanced at the old woman. She was a woman with a lot of wrinkles on her face, which faintly concealed her original appearance. However, her nose was quite straight and her face was also pointed.
Decades ago, Xu was still a great beauty.
Dugu Hou said, "This is a disciple of the Jiutian Buddhist Sect, named Xue Youlan. She proved her truth through killing and built a platform with blood. She was once known as the Blood Fairy and had many admirers."
The old woman frowned slightly and glanced at Dugu Hou unhappily, "Why are you still bringing up those old things?"
Dugu Hou smiled, looked at Li Changxiao, and asked, "I think you already know where we are, but we don't know where you are, why don't you tell me?"
Li Changxiao clasped his fists and said, "Li Changxiao, Qingyu, Lingtianzhou, a disciple of Panlong Sect."
Li Changxiao found that this seemed to be the only title he could come up with to introduce himself.
"From Lingtian Continent? It's very far away. What are you doing here?" Xue Youlan glanced at him.
Even the Lonely Marquis, Long Qi of the Ceyan Sect, looked over at the same time.
Li Changxiao found a few excuses to get away with it, then looked at the pale-faced scholar and said, "This matter has nothing to do with him, so let him go."
"It's irrelevant?" Xue Youlan sneered, "How can it be irrelevant? This letter was written by him, even the paper is the same, how can it be irrelevant?"
The pale-faced scholar stiffened his neck and said, "This is not my handwriting. Besides, this kind of paper can be found in any calligraphy and painting shop."
“But the thread of cause and effect and my plan are definitely correct.” Long Qi stepped forward and spoke slowly.
Ce Yanzong's calculations needed a basis. He used Dugu Hou's cause and effect thread as a benchmark to calculate the location of this calligraphy and painting shop.
It's not difficult, and it's impossible to go wrong.
Li Changxiao used dream magic to explore the dream of the pale-faced scholar and said, "He was bewitched by the magic and wrote this letter under unclear circumstances."
"He himself didn't know when he wrote the letter."
"Humph!" Xue Youlan snorted coldly, "This is just your one-sided statement. How can we believe it?"
Halfway through her speech, she wanted to say something else.
But he accidentally met Li Changxiao's eyes, those beautiful deep blue eyes.
This old woman who proved her truth through killing and built her platform with blood shut her mouth in an instant.