Lord Bao went to court overnight to try the case of the Taiwei Mansion being destroyed.

This case has many doubts and involves a lot of issues. The truth of the case has aroused the curiosity of many court officials. Many officials and officials came to the trial, and Zhao Zhen even took the lead.

In the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion, Lord Bao first listened to the confessions of the two people involved.

First of all, the Censor-in-Chief Pei Yanshu.

Lord Pei ran to the palace to find Zhao Zhen to surrender himself. According to the description of the shadow guards who followed him, Lord Pei did not go home after leaving the examination room, but went to the Grand Tutor's Mansion nearby. After hearing Pei Yanshu's relationship with the case, the Grand Tutor suggested that he would not go back to the palace and go directly to the palace to find the emperor to explain the truth.

Another person who provided the confession was Wang Xu, the master of Xingyue Tower who had "salt escaped" in the examination room.

After Wang Xu was arrested, he insisted that he was hired by Pei Yanshu and became a "ghost" for his son Pei Jun to ensure that Pei Jun can successfully enter the palace examination.

The content of Pei Yanshu surrendering himself to Zhao Zhen, on the one hand, denied that he was related to the murder of Wang Xu and Cao Kui, and on the other hand, it was also the focus of this time, which was that Pei Yanshu told about what happened during the martial arts examination.

Pei Yanshu and Cao Kui are candidates in the same martial arts exam. They met after entering Kaifeng. Coincidentally, they lived on the same floor of the inn, with two adjacent rooms.

Pei Yanshu's family background is very good and his martial arts skills are average. His family spent a lot of money and hired a "ghost" in the hope that he could be admitted to the palace examination and thus become an official in the glory of his ancestors.

Pei Yanshu and Cao Kui met because of drinking, and the two soon became friends.

One day, the two of them drank a few more drinks and started chatting.

Pei Yanshu complained loudly, saying that practicing martial arts was too hard and he had no talent. Although his family had high expectations, it was too difficult to think about high school.

After hearing his words, Cao Kui told him mysteriously, "Do you know that martial arts can actually be "borrowed".

Pei Yanshu was stunned at the time and thought that the brother was talking nonsense, but Cao Kui asked him seriously if he had invited many "ghosts" to participate? If he was willing to cooperate, he would be able to get a title on the list.

Only then did Pei Yanshu realize that it was not a coincidence that Cao Kui became friends with him, but Cao Kui took the initiative to approach him.

Just like that, the two formed an alliance and participated in the martial arts examination.

The martial arts examination was also postponed. On the surface, it was because the sacrifice was postponed, but in fact, there was also a situation where the candidates turned into salt. For safety reasons, the palace examination was postponed for several days.

In the past few days of postponement, Cao Kui and Pei Yanshu mainly do it to "borrow" internal forces, but in fact, it is more like "acting".

What Cao Kui and Pei Yanshu practiced is a kind of "trick" that is fancy, but in fact it is not powerful.

Pei Yanshu didn't understand what this was. He just felt that he would definitely be beaten badly on the day of the competition.

But what is unexpected is that on the day of the competition, the originally fancy fists and feet produced unexpected lethality.

...

Pei Yanshu didn't understand it at that time, but combined with this case and Tao Ming's "Pupilless Ghost", it became easy to understand.

The so-called "borrowing" martial arts is like singing a double act. Pei Yanshu and Cao Kui are the ones who "performed" in front, and the real master is the "master" who hides somewhere to use the ghost without an eye to plot against his opponent.

So was that master Tao Ming back then? Pei Yanshu said he didn't know that he and Cao Kui were both admitted to the exam. Cao Kui was the top scorer, and he was Tanhua.

After all, they were guilty and the two of them kept a tacit distance from each other since then.

Cao Kui would occasionally ask Pei Yanshu for some money. Pei Yanshu didn't quite understand at that time. Cao Kui had such a high salary as such a high official, and he didn't see him, so he had to spend a lot of money. What should he do if he wanted money?

Thinking about it now, Cao Kui used it to hire people to dig graves in the northwest. In order not to arouse suspicion, he mostly used the money Pei Yanshu gave him.

This is why, those who know Cao Kui think that his martial arts have regressed a lot, because those martial arts originally did not belong to him.

...

This time Pei Yanshu's son Pei Jun participated in the martial arts examination. Pei Yanshu had no idea of ​​cheating, and he had no place to find a "ghost". He even disagreed with Pei Jun taking the martial arts examination.

Pei Jun, who was completely unaware of the situation, has always admired his father very much. He knew that Pei Yan had passed the Tanhua book, so he also wanted to enter the top three, and as dignified as his father, he entered the officialdom with his ability.

Pei Yanshu knew that his son was just as good as martial arts, so he didn't stop him. He thought that he could only get the top fifty at most, and after being beaten, he probably gave up.

However, it seemed that there was divine will in the dark. Pei Jun was not very good at martial arts, but he smoothly entered the last twenty.

Pei Yanshu felt something was strange before. It was not until the scene just now that he realized that the matter was extraordinary. When he contacted the recent news that he might take over as the Grand Marshal, he knew that something was wrong.

Pei Yanshu and the Grand Master had always had some friendship, so he found the Grand Master overnight to discuss.

The Grand Master felt that someone might be looking for him as a scapegoat for this case and put all the blame on him, so he asked him to quickly turn himself in to the emperor.

...

In addition to these two people, there were many people involved in the hall: Kong Yue, assassinating the guards of Duoqi's Taiwei Mansion, the Tianshi Liang Jing, and a group of candidates who converted to salt from Maoshan Sect, as well as Tao Ming Zhenren.

When Lord Bao asked Kong Yue, this martial arts senior also looked innocent.

After Sanyuezhai was involved in this case, the leader of the sect, Zhaiyue, died, and there were no candidates who entered the top ten. Kong Yue even asked Bai Yutang to beat him up and arrest him. It can be said that he did not get any benefits at all.

Kong Yue said that he was just angry with Mei and the Maoshan Sect because of his relationship with Master Zhaiyue. Although he hurt Mei and Wushu, he did nothing else.

The Taiwei's guards who assassinated Duoqi said that they were bribed.

There are two types of guards in the Taiwei Mansion, one is a serious guard, and the other is a thug or killer hired by Cao Kui in private, all of whom are doing things for money.

Several guards said that after the Taiwei was killed, they wanted to escape quickly, otherwise the case would be investigated, and perhaps their identity as the fake guard would be found out. At that time, the crime of murdering the Taiwei would be more than worth it. Escape would require money, so the group of people started their own business and collected money to work hard for others.

Their employer just asked them to intercept an old man's carriage on the official road. They didn't know who the old man was, and they didn't know the identity of the employer. The person who passed the message was covered, and they were only responsible for taking money to do business.

Tianshi Liang Jing was the first person to turn salt. Like those candidates who turned salt, he obeyed Tao Ming.

...

In fact, since Zhan Zhao and others cracked the secret of Yuxuan's Salt Escape, they discovered an important flaw in Salt Escape... that is, they must be actively cooperated by the people in Salt Escape. Passively cannot be used for Salt Escape, unless they are dead people. As long as they are living people, Salt Escape must use tangible internal forces or cooperate with people with tangible internal forces to complete it.

Who can control the disciples of Maoshan Sect? Especially the eldest disciple, Tianshi Liang Jing? The most suspicious one is of course Tao Ming Zhenren.

At the same time, when the attack on Su Jiugu that day, the murderer seemed to have a good understanding of Su Jiugu's habits, and his internal strength was so high that it was not something that ordinary people could do. There were not many people in the world who had higher internal strength than the Tianshi Liang Jing. It seemed that Tao Ming was the only one involved in this case.

As for why Tao Ming killed Su Jiugu, the reason is very simple. Su Jiugu suspected that his master had always been pretending to be sick.

Su Jiugu mentioned before that Tao Ming doesn't remember many things.

But Su Jiugu is quite meticulous. Before he was attacked, he was walking in Kaifeng City. In fact, he was not thinking about Lu Tianhan. She was indeed thinking about it, because when she heard that the commander behind the scenes might be her senior brother, she suspected that everything was instructed by her master Tao Ming.

Su Jiugu had a good relationship with Lu Tianhan and even moved into Kaifeng Mansion. It was only a matter of time before Tao Ming and Liang Jing wanted to kill her to silence her. If Lu Tianhan hadn't arrived in time that day, Su Jiugu would have been killed.

...

The Grand Marshal Cao Kui and the dozen guards in the mansion were all killed by masters.

Cao Kui's death was tragic, and the scene of the murder was also very bloody. However, in such a messy scene, there were neither handprints nor footprints. The murderer dragged the bloody body of the Taiwei to the gate. The scene was covered with blood, but not even half of the blood footprints were left, proving that the person who committed the murder was actually the ghost without eyes.

Without the help of the internal power of the Ice, the Eyeless Ghost is colorless and invisible! The dozen or so guards were killed without resistance, which is indeed in line with this situation.

All the evidence points to Tao Ming Zhenren, and Bao Zheng asks Tao Ming whether he pleads guilty.

Tao Ming didn't think he was committing a crime. He still had that argument. Ancient martial arts belonged to the Maoshan School, so it was normal for him to take it back. Cao Kui and the others were all thieves who stole internal strength, just like the demon king.

Lord Bao, take a look at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao was speechless and threw the scroll to Tao Ming, "This is not a secret book of ancient martial arts, it was made by us to cheat to lead you out.

There are also the mermaids that appeared in the last exam room, which were not created by the emperor, but the tangible internal force of Yutang.

Bai Yutang nodded slightly.

Tao Ming didn't believe it.

"How did you know that the secrets of ancient martial arts are in Cao Kui's hands?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Tao Ming replied that it was a clue found in Tian Yuxuan's coffin.

Liang Jing nodded, and after Su Jiugu told him about the haunted Tian Yuxuan, he sneaked into Tian Yuxuan to investigate and found that the workmanship of the sarcophagus was very similar to the golden pillar of the salt coffin, and some patterns were carved on the wall of the coffin. After multiple investigations, he found that this was a map of a street in Kaifeng City, pointing to a certain house.

These masters of the Maoshan Sect all know about Princess Salt Coffin, and they also know that the older generation of Taoists divided the Maoshan Technique into several parts and formed three factions. In their generation, no one can fully master the so-called "ancient martial arts".

This has always been a knot in Tao Ming's heart, so he wanted to take this opportunity to come to Kaifeng to regain the orthodox martial arts belonging to their Maoshan School.

It happened that it was time for the martial arts test, and Tianyuxuan’s young leader and some disciples of Maoshan Sect were coming to Kaifeng to participate.

Tao Ming also heard that Sanyuezhai, who was far away in the Western Regions, his fellow disciples Zhai Yue would also bring Sanyuezhai disciples to participate. He thought that Zhai Yue might have wanted to come and grab the secret book with him, so he ordered Liang Jing to perform the first "salt change" technique when exorcizing demons in Tianyuxuan, in order to make Liang Jing "disappear".

The master and apprentice sneaked into Kaifeng to investigate. But when they arrived, the house on the map had been hollowed out, and the owner of the house was about to marry the Grand Marshal Cao Kui.

"The ancient martial arts belonged to my Maoshan School!" Tao Ming glared at Bai Yutang fiercely, "Your kung fu is all from the Tianzun Sect, and the Tianzun's kung fu is from the Silver Demon King Sect. What you stole was the ancient martial arts of my Maoshan School!"

Zhan Zhao was speechless, looking at Bai Yutang who was frowning beside him, who was being judged by him - this person was so poisoned.

The fifth master has long been impatient - is it okay to just guillo the dog's head?

Mr. Gongsun, who was responsible for recording behind the screen, also frowned. The so-called obsession should be Tao Ming. Why do you believe so much in the existence of the so-called "ancient martial arts"?

Logically speaking, Tao Ming used an eyeless ghost to assassinate the exam room, and then broke into Zhao Zhen's bedroom at night and was arrested and captured. This is a death row, but many doubts in the case have not been solved, especially why Tao Ming is so obsessed, why did Princess of the Salt Coffin, the Demon Concubine, and the Dead Lady of Cao Kui look so similar? Cao Mo, Cao Kui and the Corpse King, why do they also look very similar? There is also Zhaiyue who died in front of the gate of Kaifeng Prefecture. Who killed him? Is it Tao Ming?

Everyone had to look at the Silver Demon King who came to join in the fun - the first one to take out the file of the salt-changing case back then was the Demon King. Did he know something that no one knows?

The Demon King looked at Tao Ming, smiled slightly, and said, "The Demon Concubine Liu Yan's life is actually very long."

Everyone was stunned. Damn Yan should have been sentenced to death by Li Bing very early. Is she a long life?

"She was sentenced to death by Li Bing back then because she wanted to usurp the throne." The demon king said slowly, "When you talk about usurp the throne, have you thought of anything?"

Everyone looked at the Demon King in confusion - is this a reminder? What is the relationship between ancient martial arts and usurpation of the throne?

"I can't imagine it? Then let's change the word." The demon king waved his hand indifferently, "Which one do you think is the most evil thing about this case?"

"It's a matter of the same appearance." Zhao Zhen was more active than Zhan Zhao and the others. As the emperor, he also thought about it for a long time, especially the portraits found in the palace. The demon concubine Yu Yan looked the same as the Princess Salt Coffin.

"For example," said the Demon King, "The Princess of the Salt Coffin is the first generation, the Demon Concubine is the second generation, and Cao Kui's wife is the third generation. These three women look the same as the three men of the same period. This is the strangest point, right?"
To be continued...