Monarch Night

Chapter 1437: Chapter 86: Passing Through the Mortal World, From Then On All Mountains and Rivers Turn to Autumn! [2-in-1]_3

The instant he looked up, his scalp tingling, he saw that the trees on both sides were already collectively bald!

Fang Che merely walked past here!

"Hiss..."

A thought seemed to rise in the hearts of all the Jianghu people.

I walked through the mortal world, and from then on, mountains and rivers felt like autumn.

Worldly hair fluttered, I shaved the mundane world!

...

Fang Che silently returned to the Guardian Hall.

Yu Zhongge and the others were already waiting in the hall.

"Boss, we’ve been investigating this Lin Family for three consecutive days. Something’s very off!"

These past three nights.

Yu Zhongge and the others hadn’t rested at all.

Especially Yu Zhongge and Mo Gan Yun, who were particularly embarrassed—last time, their first stop among the four was Baixiang Continent.

But they basically found nothing.

After they passed through, Fang Che arrived, and immediately caused a Corpse Mountain Blood Sea!

Moreover, with the hidden threat posed by the Lin Family, both Yu Zhongge and Mo Gan Yun felt they had failed deplorably.

So this time, Yu Zhongge, Mo Gan Yun, Xue Wanren, and Jing Shuanggao were almost going all out.

"The Lin Family feels off? How so?"

Fang Che asked.

"We examined everyone in the Lin Family, including Lin Family members, including house servants, including maids, etc... totaling two thousand four hundred and fifty-two people."

"Among them, the Lin Family bloodline and their wives and children amounted to four hundred and sixty people."

"But we investigated the number of servants the Lin Family bought in the last ten years, and it reached thirteen thousand."

"The numbers don’t match up at all? Are they buying servants just to beat them to death and then buy more? It doesn’t make sense, right?"

"Furthermore, the Lin Family doesn’t have many other industries, just one casino, three restaurants, two silk shops, two salt shops, and a low-level Spirit Jade mine."

"But putting all these people together, they don’t add up to ten thousand. And at these places, the youngest is in their thirties or forties, which doesn’t match the children bought as servants."

"Also, the requirements for buying servants for the Lin Family are very high, they don’t necessarily need geniuses, but they must have Martial Arts Talent, even if it’s Low Grade, Lowest Grade, it’s fine, but if they’re completely ordinary, no matter how good-looking, they won’t take them!"

"But observing their ordinary servants and maids, many don’t have Martial Arts Talent! Even those who might have some, at a glance, are only about seventy or eighty..."

Yu Zhongge’s expression was heavy: "Given this, where did those children with Martial Arts Talent go? It’s not a small number, it’s thirteen thousand!"

"In just ten years, that’s so many. The Lin Family doesn’t have tunnels leading outside, nor have they seen these children being sent out, so where did they go?"

Xue Wanren spoke from the side: "In the Lin Family’s backyard, there’s a deep well, about six feet wide, which is quite large. But the Lin Family never uses the water from this well."

"I used Spiritual Energy to probe, and below this deep well, there’s a space. But what this space is used for, I don’t know. I was afraid of alerting them, so I didn’t go down to check."

Fang Che’s brow furrowed tightly.

Suddenly he asked: "The smell? Is there any other smell? Like a stench? A blood smell?"

Such a question.

Yu Zhongge and the others immediately frowned, pondering intently.

Jing Shuanggao silently said: "In the air above the Lin Family, there’s a faint bloody smell, and a slight stench, but not very noticeable."

A suspicion in Fang Che’s heart became increasingly clear. In Wei Wo Zheng Sect, the name of a Magic Skill surfaced faintly.

Ready to burst forth.

He tilted his head back, muttering to himself: "The Lin Family’s young master is just over eleven, ten years ago the child collection started... at that time, the young master was just over a year old..."

"In ten years, the Lin Family bought thirteen thousand children into the residence..."

"The Lin Family’s young master Lin Ao came out of the restaurant and saw that little girl, then rushed over and bit her throat off..."

"The child Ju Xiu Shui wanted to help, the body was found in the river, throat bitten through, internal organs in ruins... yet why was this one body in the river?"

Fang Che pondered deeply.

Feng Xiangdong’s eyes suddenly lit up, saying: "According to my family’s records, many years ago, there was an Ancestor Xuesha in Wei Wo Zheng Sect, practicing the Heavenly Harvest Divine Skill; while on our guardian’s side, it’s called the Blood Slaughter Demon Technique."

"The Blood Slaughter Demon Technique, reportedly could only be practiced by those with innate deficiencies, because only those with innate deficiencies could use harvesting to compensate for their shortcomings with others’ strengths."

"And this Ancestor Xuesha had deficiency in Martial Arts Talent, the way of cultivation then was to devour the heart veins and blood of children with Martial Arts Talent; continuously nurturing himself with the blood and heart veins of children, transforming it into Innate Energy; to make up for his originally weak Martial Arts Talent... becoming a Great Demon of some region later on..."

"And this Ancestor Xuesha was cleaved into ashes in the Southeast War back then by Lord Ningxue Sword!"

Fang Che’s eyes also suddenly brightened.

He said: "Retrieve information on the Lin Family ancestor Lin Pingjiang’s battles back then, exactly which experts from Wei Wo Zheng Sect did he fight against? How did he die afterward!?"

Here in Baixiang Continent, this information is easy to retrieve.

Soon, the relevant data was placed in front of Fang Che.

"The Lin Family’s ancestor Lin Pingjiang, back then, fended off experts all by himself... then Ancestor Xuesha arrived and heavily injured Lin Pingjiang in three moves, causing his death; then Lord Jian appeared and struck Ancestor Xuesha dead on the spot!"

"But Lin Pingjiang’s wounds were too grave, after being carried back, before the great war ended, he already suddenly passed away."