Chapter 59: Someone Died

The next morning, as Li Changsheng was performing the Minor Cloud and Rain Technique to water his spirit plants and crops, he suddenly heard a scream from the main street outside the formation.

Not long after the scream, the main street outside the formation became like a boiling pot, with voices clamoring and a deafening din.

Some sounds, due to being mixed with magical power fluctuations, were blocked by the Azure Water Forest Wood Formation, causing the sounds to become distorted.

Li Changsheng frowned. Early in the morning, could it be that someone was fighting on the main street?!

With a flick of his palm, his Five Elements Magic Power circulated, and a spirit mirror, as clear as autumn water, appeared in his palm.

Using the Minor Five Elements Spirit Mirror, Li Changsheng saw the scene outside. He saw a large crowd gathered outside his neighbor’s courtyard, watching the spectacle.

Some people stood at the courtyard entrance, constantly peering inside.

The neighbor’s Courtyard Formation had completely stopped functioning, offering no resistance to peeking.

Li Changsheng merely adjusted the angle of observation of the spirit mirror slightly, and he saw the scene inside the neighbor’s courtyard.

He saw a marketplace manager and an enforcement team captain, supervising several enforcement cultivators, carrying a dried corpse out of the neighbor’s house.

The corpse was shriveled, like decaying wood in the desert.

Even without being at the scene, Li Changsheng could see the filthy demonic qi emanating from the corpse.

Based on the magic robe the corpse was wearing and the style of its accessories, Li Changsheng recognized that this was his neighbor, who had been alive and well just yesterday.

This female demon cultivator was indeed quick, but where did she go after committing the murder?

Li Changsheng manipulated the spirit mirror, scanning the entire courtyard and even the surrounding area, but found no trace of the female demon cultivator. He couldn’t help but wonder.

He waved his hand to dismiss the spirit mirror. Since he couldn’t find her, he decided not to dwell on it, to avoid causing trouble.

He estimated that the female demon cultivator would continue to act. Once she killed someone in the marketplace and left a trace, he would directly report her.

Putting the matter of the female demon cultivator out of his mind, she had already disappeared, so he could only wait for her to strike again.

Anyway, as soon as she left any trace, he would definitely kill her. After all, there was no principle of guarding against a thief for a thousand days.

Instructing Golden Spear to move a bamboo chair, Li Changsheng sat by the pond and took out a pile of crystal-clear pebbles from his game backpack.

At the same time, a Creation-Derived Lotus spirit seed appeared in his palm, and Li Changsheng carefully placed it into a jade box.

This item could be planted in the pond right now, but the problem was that there were spirit fish being raised in the pond.

Although the Creation-Derived Lotus needed the vitality from living beings to grow.

However, if it wasn’t protected well during planting, and a spirit fish happened to eat it, Li Changsheng would be heartbroken.

Picking up a ruby the size of a fist, Li Changsheng casually glanced at it before tossing it aside.

These treasures, worth fortunes in mortal dynasties, were merely ordinary building materials in the eyes of cultivators.

In just a short while, Li Changsheng had inspected all the gemstones he had bought yesterday.

Even though he held onto a glimmer of hope that there might be spirit seeds among these gemstones, mistaken for ordinary stones, the result still greatly disappointed Li Changsheng.

Stones are ultimately stones. Even if a swan appears among a flock of ugly ducks, it’s because it was a swan all along.

With a wave of his hand, he scattered these beautiful pebbles into the pond as decoration, and Li Changsheng got up and left his home.

A crowd of onlookers was still gathered at the neighbor’s doorway.

Whether in mortal dynasties or cultivation marketplaces, some people avoided potential risks like the plague, while others were drawn to gather and watch the spectacle.

Gathering in crowds to spectate was truly a human instinct.

Li Changsheng glanced at them briefly without paying much attention, and headed straight for the Seven-Story Treasure Pavilion.

However, his departure made him seem out of place with the onlookers, and this scene was exactly what the marketplace manager and the captain of the enforcement cultivators observed.

“What? Captain Qian, do you find this person suspicious?”

Manager Chen watched Li Changsheng’s receding back with interest and asked Captain Qian.

Captain Qian frowned upon hearing this. He felt that Manager Chen had more to say, but he still voiced his suspicion:

“As you saw, this person lives right next door to the victim.

And now, he’s in a hurry to leave, and he clearly noticed the situation here. Manager Chen, don’t you find that suspicious?”

To Captain Qian’s confusion, Manager Chen smiled and shook his head:

“The possibility of him being the killer is slim, or rather, impossible!

Captain Qian, you might not know this, but he is a First Grade Grandmaster Alchemist and has just been recruited as a Guest Elder by the Merchant Immortal Alliance. How could he be a demonic scoundrel cultivating demonic qi!”

With the endorsement of the Merchant Immortal Alliance’s Seven-Story Treasure Pavilion, Captain Qian withdrew his suspicious gaze.

He felt a bit regretful, thinking he had caught the real culprit or found a clue, but it turned out to be a false hope.

Li Changsheng, naturally, was unaware that he had almost been mistaken for the murderer of his neighbor.

Upon entering the Seven-Story Treasure Pavilion, he was here to buy some formations.

However, buying things was not urgent. Li Changsheng first went into Wei Ming’s medicinal herb shop.

“You’re here, Fellow Daoist!” Wei Ming greeted him, brewed some tea, invited Li Changsheng to sit down, and said with a smile:

“It’s different now that you’ve become a Guest Elder. You even have the leisure to wander into my shop!

But I’m usually alone and bored staying in the shop, so if you have nothing to do, Fellow Daoist, feel free to visit often!”

“Thank you for your hospitality, Fellow Daoist,” Li Changsheng took a sip of tea and then changed the subject:

“Fellow Daoist, do you know? Someone died next door to my place this morning!”

Gossiping was also a human nature. Wei Ming immediately became interested, even forgetting to drink his spirit tea, and hurriedly asked:

“What happened? Tell me quickly!”

Under Wei Ming’s impatient gaze, Li Changsheng slowly took another sip of tea and then, in the tone of a storyteller, began to narrate:

“Just yesterday, before I came here, a woman suddenly came to my house, saying she wanted… That woman looked…”

Wei Ming listened and nodded repeatedly, his mind unable to stop fantasizing:

How weak and vulnerable the female demon cultivator appeared, igniting desire.

Faced with temptation, did Li Changsheng truly focus solely on seeking the Dao, or was he moved, and ultimately had to let go with regret.

Upon hearing that the female demon cultivator went to the neighbor’s door, cold sweat broke out on Wei Ming’s head. Such a beauty appearing at his door, ready to be taken at will, was too difficult to refuse.

If this demon had found his residence, he would likely have suffered the same fate.

He couldn’t help but slap his thigh and exclaim in surprise:

“Fellow Daoist Li, your Dao Heart is truly firm, and you have foresight! Quickly tell me how miserably your neighbor died!”

Hearing this, a vein twitched on Li Changsheng’s forehead, but he continued to narrate.