Chapter 26 Joint Case Solving
Deep inside the Zhuxie Yamen, inside a solemn building.

A thin and elegant middle-aged man in official clothes was smiling and bowing: "I am Xie Wenxi, the head of the Evil Punishment Department. Mr. Chen is too busy to come today, so I will welcome you two."

"How dare I trouble Mr. Chen with such a small matter? Let Mr. Xie take care of it today." A woman in a white robe responded.

In the middle of this rather plain room, there were two ice beds, with chilly air gushing out. On each of the ice beds was a corpse, a rugged man and a beautiful woman, Yu Wenlong and Fengdie.

There were also two people standing on one side of the corpse.

One was a woman wearing a silver-white robe, with black hair down to her waist, white skin, and an ethereal gaze. In her hand, she held a round jade mirror that looked extraordinary. It was hard to tell her age, but she looked otherworldly just standing there.

One was a sturdy old man wearing the uniform of a Ministry of Justice official, with skin as rough as black iron and extremely sharp eyes.

The middle-aged person in charge named Xie Wenxi introduced them one by one: "This is the Jade Mirror Priest of the Heavenly Questioning Tower. He is highly regarded by the Great Priest. He is willing to come and help today. This is really a great honor for our Evil Slaying Division."

The woman in white robe holding the mirror replied, "Mr. Chen has invited me, so I cannot refuse."

Xie Wenxi said again: "This is Mr. Wang, the master coroner, the chief coroner of the Ministry of Justice. He has solved countless major cases in the past forty years and is very famous!"

"I don't deserve it." The old man was a little modest, but looking at the proud look between his brows, he was still quite pleased.

Opposite the two ice beds were three young men from the Evil-Slaying Division.

The one with a tall and broad appearance was Shang Yunhai.

The other woman had a fair and pretty face. She was wearing a black tasseled skirt, a white gauze shawl, a black ribbon around her waist, and a white jade flower in her hair. She stood there looking a little timid.

The last woman was dressed in white, without any makeup, standing there quietly, but she seemed to have thousands of brilliance gathered in one person. It was Wen Yifan.

Xie Wenxi introduced three young people: "This is Shang Yunhai from the Xuanmen Hualong lineage, and Wen Yifan from the Yujian lineage. They are the two walking officers of the Zhuxie Division who are in charge of this case. This is Wei Ping'er, the heir of the Danding lineage. Miss Wei Jiu is well versed in pharmacology, so she was called here as well."

The timid woman didn't dare to look up, as if she was very afraid of people, but when she lowered her head towards the corpse, she didn't react at all.

"I invited both of you here today because our Zhuxie Division has encountered a difficult case." Xie Wenxi finally pointed at the two corpses, "This is the Jiuyang spy lurking in our army. The brothel girl he had a relationship with was killed by the same poison. I don't know if our Zhuxie Division has also been infiltrated by the Jiuyang spy, or if there are other means to poison. Please help me see if you can find any clues."

……

Next, Shang Yunhai gave a brief description of the case so that the three foreign players could understand it.

The most important thing is to determine whether there is any traitor in the Zhuxie Division.

The Zhuxie Yamen is composed of Chen Su and the disciples of the Eight Sects of Xuanmen he invited, plus some old soldiers from the Ministry of War who participated in the Battle of Tianxia. It is guaranteed to be an absolutely clean knife, specially used to deal with the Jiuyang spies.

If there are problems inside, it means that Jiuyang's infiltration ability is extremely terrifying, and the situation is serious. To some extent, determining how Yu Wenlong died may be more important than digging out more clues through him.

This is how we have today’s joint case-solving.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, the Evil Extermination Division would not easily seek help from outsiders.

After hearing the whole story, the Jade Mirror Priest was the first to speak: "I can try to see if I can bring back their spirits. But they have been dead for quite a while, I am not sure how many of them can be reunited."

“Priest Jade Mirror, feel free to try, don’t worry about the results.” Xie Wenxi said quickly.

The great priest Beiluo Shimen is one of the three great immortal realms in the world. She sits in the Wentian Tower and rarely shows up. The priests under her are all accomplished mystics. Their status in the Yin Dynasty is extremely high. Even an institution like the Zhuxie Division, which is superior to other government offices, has to respect them.

The priestess was seen holding the white jade mirror in her hand, shining it towards Yu Wenlong, muttering some ancient words. The air around her began to buzz, as if something was responding to her.

Soon the noise expanded into a buzzing sound of wind, and a wisp of turbid air gathered on the chest of the corpse.

Echoed!

In the mirror, a deep current like a vortex appeared, in which Yu Wenlong's face with his eyes closed was vaguely visible.

"Huh..." Jade Mirror Priest closed her eyes, as if communicating with the person in the mirror. After a moment, she slowly dissipated her magical power.

"Before his death, he was unwilling and angry, but overall he was calm." The Jade Mirror Priest said in a hollow voice: "He may have committed suicide, or he may have willingly accepted his own death."

Then, she used her magical powers once again to respond to the soul of the swallowtail butterfly.

call--

The sound of wind blew, and the same scene happened again. This time, Fengdie's face appeared in the jade mirror, but it was a little blurrier than Yu Wenlong before.

After the magical power subsided, the Jade Mirror Priest opened his eyes and shook his head, saying, "Although she died more recently, she was just a mortal and her soul was too weak. I can only feel that she was very sad before she died."

"This allows us to make a judgment on the circumstances before the two people's deaths." Shang Yunhai said from the side.

"The Jade Mirror Priest is looking for clues from the soul, I will look for clues from the body." Wang Shendao saw that the Jade Mirror Priest had not obtained many clues, so he lifted his clothes and took out a bundle of cowhide bags from the hem. He spread it out, and saw all kinds of knives, hooks, needles, scissors from large to small hanging on it...

The cold and sharp light is daunting.

"They all died of poisoning, right?" He was quite impatient. He took out a long silver needle, stabbed it into Yu Wenlong's heart, and then pulled it out.

Then a scene that shocked everyone happened. Wang Shendao actually stuck out his tongue, licked the tip of the needle, and smacked it in his mouth.

"Hey! That's the heart-destroying poison..." Miss Wei Jiu raised her hand anxiously.

"Don't be afraid, little girl." Wang Shendao smiled indifferently, lifted his sleeves, and said, "Look what this is."

On his arm, there was a mass of golden flesh that rose and fell on his forearm, like a part of his body, or like a blood-sucking leech.

"Ah..." Wei Ping'er finally calmed down.

Seeing this, Xie Wenxi said, "In ancient times, when the Chu Saint ascended to heaven and beheaded the Huanshen Peak, ten kinds of immortals fell with him. One of them is called Tai Sui Root. If you feed it with the essence of the sun and the moon, you will become an immortal. Eating its flesh and blood can cure all poisons, whiten bones, and prolong life. If you feed it with the flesh and blood of living creatures, you will become a demon. Eating its flesh and blood can strengthen your qi and blood, increase your cultivation, and make evil thoughts burn. This piece of the divine knife coroner, could it be the legendary immortal Tai Sui?"

“As expected of a person from the Xuanmen sect.” Wang Shendao nodded and said, “This is a piece of Immortal Tai Sui that I spent a lot of money to get back then. I have been feeding it for more than ten years. Without it, I would have died dozens of times.”

As he spoke, he stabbed the butterfly's heart again and tasted the flavor.

Immediately, he said to everyone, "The Heart-Destroying Gu in these two people is of different flavor. They should not have been infected by the same person."

"Can you taste the Heart-Destroying Gu?" Wei Ping'er asked in a low voice, somewhat incredulous.

"You don't know this, right? Gu poison is the easiest to distinguish. Gu worms raised by different people have different tastes." Wang Shendao said, "There are about six or seven people in Jiuyang who can raise the Heart-Destroying Gu, and I have tasted half of them. The Gu worms of these two people are definitely not from the same family."

"That is to say, the person who killed Yu Wenlong and Fengdie is not the same person. At least the source of the poison is different." Xie Wenxi concluded.

"But the Heart-Destroying Gu, no matter who feeds it, will work very quickly once swallowed. This will never change. So the source must be food or people that the deceased has come into contact with in a short period of time." Wang Shendao continued, "Listening to the case you just described, I would say that the knife officials in the Evil-Slaying Division who have come into contact with this man and the people in the Miaoyin Pavilion who have come into contact with this woman should all be arrested and severely tortured. There will definitely be gains."

"Mr. Wang, we can't just torture people without any evidence at all." Xie Wenxi said helplessly.

Wang Shendao glared: "What evidence do you need? This poison is the evidence. If it were me, I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go! Why would you handle this case with such shackles?"

Is this the thundering method used by the old man from the Ministry of Justice?

Everyone present could only smile.

Although the Zhuxie Yamen has done a lot of cruel things in the past two years, and its fierceness has shocked everyone in the court, it is mainly because it is fearless in the face of anyone and will punish anyone who needs to be punished. In terms of specific case handling methods, Chen Su, the head of the Zhuxie Yamen, is principled and will not abuse punishment blindly.

If he really was the type of person who would do anything to achieve his goal, these idle disciples of the Xuanmen sect would not have always helped him.

"I think your case is difficult to handle." The divine sword coroner shook his head and said, "If you really want to solve the case, I only have one idea."

(End of this chapter)