Celestial Demon Starting from Attribute Points-Chapter 47: Racing for Speed

Blind Alley.

Soon, the sounds died down, and the place was eerily silent.

Li Xuan followed the malicious ghost vendor to an ordinary house.

The house had a twofold gate and seemed worn and chilly, appearing as if a large family lived inside.

As Li Xuan entered, he saw men and women stepping out from the rooms, staring fixedly at him. But as he completely removed the black cloth covering his face, those stares disappeared.

He didn’t enter the house; he just sat on a black stone in the courtyard.

After a while, he saw many men and women, old and young, walking out from the house.

The number of "people" far exceeded the standard of "one family." Li Xuan even realized that they weren’t living inside but were squished together.

These people didn’t greet Li Xuan but simply went one by one to the well, then abruptly started climbing down into it.

As their hands touched the well walls, they did not slide down but crawled down from top to bottom, like geckos, completely ignoring gravity...

This eerie scene made Li Xuan’s skin crawl, a cold shiver shot up from his soles to his scalp.

He could imagine the narrow well opening filled with piles of bodies, like corpses.

Bodies intertwined, arms, legs, and heads overlapping, and if he leaned over the well, he might even see those eyes swirling around, staring back at him.

This was just like the most horrifying scene in a horror movie.

Li Xuan had trained his courage and experienced many things, but suddenly arriving at such a bizarre place, his heart still sped up...

He had always wondered what kind of monster the Luoshi Sect was dealing with.

He thought it might be a Tiger Demon, after all, he had heard stories of "tiger ghosts" in his past life.

But the tiger ghost is actually quite weak. Once you see through its deception, it can’t do anything to you. After all, it relies on tricking you into being eaten by the Tiger Demon.

But these spirits here weren’t just deceiving.

What kind of monster could it be?

But whatever it is, it’s temporarily beyond his reach.

And now, here, he didn’t feel any demonic aura, which clearly indicated that the monster wasn’t present; these malicious ghosts were just servants created by the monster using demon skills.

Li Xuan felt a little uneasy looking at these malicious ghosts.

However, what he didn’t know was that, at this moment, in the eyes of others, he also looked like a ferocious spirit.

Pale drool dripped from the corners of his mouth, scattered upon hitting the ground, turning into mist, shrouding the ghost house in a mysterious haze. It could be said that... Li Xuan and this ghost house were a perfect match, almost like a family.

After a long time, a bladesman dressed in a martial world attire came over and sat across from Li Xuan, gruffly saying, "Kill Su Cangyuan?"

Li Xuan coldly replied, "Kill."

The bladesman’s voice grew strange, "Good."

Li Xuan directly said, "He will be leaving the city heading east to take up the position of Magistrate. We can ambush him halfway.

The terrain in the city is complex; there are many hiding spots. If we miss our chance with one strike, it will be difficult to find another opportunity."

The bladesman was apparently quite sharp, as his face turned grim. After a moment’s thought, he nodded, "Good."

Then he added, "Once Su Cangyuan is dead, the city is yours, but you must regularly send people to the Luoshi Sect, a thousand people each month."

Li Xuan was taken aback.

Clearly, the monster at Luoshi Sect was special; it couldn’t leave the sect, or else it wouldn’t relinquish the city so readily.

So he earnestly negotiated, "A thousand people a month is too conspicuous."

"How many are you willing to send?" The bladesman was a bit irritated, clearly... executing the will of the monster at Luoshi Sect.

Li Xuan said, "As many as possible, but not fewer than a hundred each month."

"A hundred? Too few!" The bladesman angrily exclaimed, "Su Cangyuan is dead. We’ll assist you in eliminating all the Secret Martial Artists in this city, and you’ll only send a hundred? That’s far too little! Not enough to feed!"

Li Xuan feigned a demonic voice, hissingly saying, "I will do my best."

In reality, whether he agreed or not was irrelevant, because... he never intended to fulfill the agreement.

But if he didn’t hesitate a little, wouldn’t it seem too fake?

...

...

In the following days, Li Xuan grew increasingly familiar with these malicious ghosts.

He discovered that these ghosts’ intelligence was indeed comparable to humans, and some retained memories from their past lives, though these memories were severely twisted, leaving only malevolence.

Just by appearance, it was extremely difficult to differentiate between malicious spirits unless you noticed their abnormalities.

If he hadn’t personally witnessed Lin Jieniu’s oddity, he might not have so easily realized he was a ghost.

These malicious ghosts mixed within the city were quite adept at gathering information and acting as informants.

With Li Xuan’s assistance, the ghosts started to exhibit a "gradually calming and dormant" posture.

In Hundred Flowers Mansion, the disruptions caused by demons and ghosts were diminishing.

Meanwhile, in the Cao Mansion, Su Cangyuan received a letter from Tian Yun, the new County Captain of Xiongshan County.

There were no carrier pigeons; it was delivered by Tian Yun’s trusted ally through fast riding.

An old man with sharp eyes and white hair opened the letter and read carefully.

The letter contained extensive information, including the conclusion of Tian Yun’s investigation into the "Feather Robe Container" and the "Leopard Corpse Mystery."

Firstly, the "Feather Robe Container."

Tian Yun scoured the records and secretly inquired everywhere, ultimately determining that the old man found dead in the alley, with a boiled head, was Zhangsun Yu. The first to discover Zhangsun Yu’s death were three individuals.

These three were the Li family’s eldest son, Li Xuan, the Li family’s driver, Li Shu, and the eldest son’s chamber maid — Rose.

Furthermore, Tian Yun found that the metal token with a swastika pattern that Su Cangyuan had collected was taken from Zhangsun Yu’s home by a government official, but nothing else was found there.

Next, the "Leopard Corpse Mystery."

Tian Yun’s investigation revealed that the chance of anyone becoming a Secret Martial Artist was very high with Wei Yao; others couldn’t yet be detected.

He suspected the Li family might harbor a master capable of extracting magic blood and cultivating Secret Martial Artists, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense.

Holding the letter, Su Cangyuan was momentarily lost in thought.

After pondering for a long time, he replied to the letter.

The critical part of the letter was encrypted with secret codes, only understandable by him and his disciple.

He instructed Tian Yun to halt the investigation but personally continue the previous "flower thief" legend, and then... let people discover that the flower thief was actually a bandit on Red Flower Mountain.

Then, Tian Yun could demand the Li and Tian families assist in quelling the bandits.

Upon secretly arriving in Xiongshan County himself, he would disguise as a county soldier, and during the bandit suppression, he would relentlessly interrogate any Li family members going out with the bandit group.

Afterwards... fabricate charges, claiming the Li family collaborated with bandits, leading to joint extermination by county soldiers and the Tian family, confiscating their properties and exterminating them.

Su Cangyuan considered the possibility of the Li family having a master capable of extracting magic blood, but since even Zhangsun Yu had betrayed the Yu Sect, there was nothing to negotiate with the Li family.

He who strikes first prevails; he who strikes later is doomed.

If you hesitate to use the sword initially, your enemy’s sword will descend and cut you down.

Su Cangyuan was a seasoned strategist of the martial world and wouldn’t make such mistakes.

Moreover, he wouldn’t engage in "negotiations or talks" of any sort.

Can this matter even be discussed? Once talked about, others would understand, and he would completely lose the initiative.

As for Li Xuan, who was away pursuing studies after his grand wedding, Su Cangyuan harbored minor misgivings, but they were trivial.

He had seen the young man and didn’t sense any aura of a Secret Martial Artist from him at the time.

Su Cangyuan decided to swiftly handle things to prevent more trouble. The scarcity of magic blood from the "Leopard Corpse" meant a few less Secret Martial Artists, but the "Feather Robe Container" was unique, and he was determined to get it!

He believed the "Feather Robe Container" was within the Li family.

Thus... while Su Cangyuan resided in Hundred Flowers Mansion, he began to remotely control the situation in Xiongshan County.