In the underground space where Xu Xing and Changsun Chan were originally located, a man wearing a tall crown suddenly appeared.

The man looked cold and frowned slightly, and glanced at the surroundings.

After a moment, two more people appeared from the other two directions.

Both of them have the cultivation level of the Golden Pill Realm. After seeing the person wearing a high crown, they raised their hands and bowed: "I have met the second city lord!"

This person, who is called the Second City Lord, is the younger brother of the lord of Ningtong City Qiao Jingsheng, named Qiao Jingming, and his cultivation is on the second level of the Nascent Soul.

Qiao Jingming said "um" lightly, nodded slightly, his eyes were still patrolling around, and said at the same time: "Ban Chen, Yan Jie, since you two are here too, let's look for clues together!"

Since Xu Xing and Changsun Chan had deliberately restrained themselves when they left and cleared the remaining aura and traces, after these three people came here, they could not tell where Xu Xing and Changsun Chan were going for a while, so they could only carefully search for possible clues.

Ban Chen and Yan Jie responded at the same time, and the three of them scattered and began to search.

Soon, Ban Chen shouted, "Something is abnormal here!"

The other two immediately followed the sound, and in front of them, there was a downward passage.

Ban Chen said in a deep voice: "This is a newly opened channel! When we abandoned this place, there was no such channel!"

The three of them stood at the entrance of the passage and did not go in immediately. Instead, they carefully released their spiritual consciousness and conducted investigations.

After counting breaths, the three of them took back their spiritual consciousness at the same time and looked at each other.

Ban Chen said: "The end of this passage is blocked by water. My spiritual consciousness is limited and I cannot detect too far in the water. I don't know the situation under the water yet!" As he said that, he looked at Qiao Jingming: "Second City Lord, your cultivation is much higher than the two of us. I wonder if you can find out where this passage leads to? Is there any danger under the water?"

Qiao Jingming did not answer immediately, but took out a compass and injected some magic power.

The compass lit up, but there was no abnormality in the display of the compass.

Even on the map displayed on the compass, there is no such channel in front of you!

This made Qiao Jingming's face slightly gloomy.

Qiao Jingming said: "It seems that this passage has a formation master covering the monitoring of the large array in our city! Otherwise, the compass in our hands will not be impossible to monitor!"

Ban Chen said: "Looking at the way this passage is dug, it should be artificial! It is probably inseparable from some people who mined here!"

Yan Jie said: "But after the accident in this mining area, we have already controlled all the insiders! Except for some dead people, the remaining people are either our own confidants or have been locked underground to mine minerals! It should be impossible to come here again to dig out such a passage!"

Ban Chen said: "Lao Yan, according to your opinion, the passage in front of you was dug out from the things underground? As long as those things are not disturbed, they will never leave the underground easily?"

Yan Jie shook his head and said, "We don't know much about the things under the ground! We accidentally dug their nests, which caused them to hit them, causing us a lot of chaos and casualties! Fortunately, this matter was suppressed by the city lord! But over the years, who can tell whether they will come out from the ground on their own initiative?"

Ban Chen said: "This is just your guess! The formation we arranged in the city has not found that something like that appeared underground! Otherwise, the city would have caused chaos long ago!"

Yan Jie said, "You have also seen that this passage is covered by the formation master! And none of us knows whether this formation master is a human or the things underground! If it is really covered by the things underground, then after they arrive on the ground, it must be not difficult for them to disguise themselves as humans and get involved in it, right?"

After hearing these words, Ban Chen felt a little hesitant: "This..."

Qiao Jingming said: "What is the specific situation? Let's go along this passage and explore it?"

Ban Chen and Yan Jie changed color slightly at the same time. Ban Chen said: "The second city lord, the situation under the passage is unknown. How important your identity is, it is not advisable to take such dangers easily!"

Qiao Jingming said: "I am a cultivator in the Nascent Soul realm. If I explore such a passage, I still have to worry about dangers? Even if there are some dangers hidden underwater, what's the point of fear? If you two are afraid, then stay here and I'll go alone!" After that, he walked towards the depths of the passage.

Ban Chen and Yan Jie looked at each other and followed closely.

The three of them followed the underwater passage and were careful to guard the whole way. They did not encounter any danger. Instead, they came to the bottom of a deep well, came out of the well, and came to a courtyard.

And this courtyard was the one where Changsun Chan took Xu Xing to avoid Tang Yan's pursuit.

The courtyard is vacant and covered with weeds. It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time.

Qiao Jingming said with a gloomy face: "Check me out, who is the owner of this courtyard!"

Ban Chen hurriedly heard several flying talismans, and it seemed that they were asking for information.

Yan Jie took out a compass and dotted and stroked it on it.

After a moment, Yan Jie stopped first, and he looked at Qiao Jingming with some embarrassment.

Qiao Jingming saw Yan Jie's face was a little wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yan Jie hesitated for a moment and said, "The owner of this courtyard has been found out. He is a woman named Shen Cuicui..."

Qiao Jingming's cheek twitched and said, "Shen Cuicui? Is Shen Cuicui who was bought from Baihua Building as a furnace and cauldron to help others break through the state of Nascent Soul twenty years ago?"

Yan Jie nodded and said, "Yes!"

Qiao Jingming said: "I remember, didn't I give her a settlement fee and let her leave by herself?"

Yan Jie said: "She did not leave, but bought this courtyard in the city. And..." At this point, Yan Jie paused again.

Qiao Jingming asked, "And what?"

Yan Jie said: "And, after she bought this yard, she gave birth to a daughter a few months later."

Qiao Jingming glanced at the courtyard and asked in a deep voice: "Then what? Why did this place look like?"

Yan Jie said: "The information I found was that Shen Cuicui took her daughter to find Princess Yuya six years after giving birth to her daughter, and then she never appeared again..."

Qiao Jingming's eyes turned cold: "What do you mean, Shen Cuicui and her daughter were killed by Yuya?"

Yan Jie looked embarrassed: "This... I don't know! I dare not talk nonsense!"

Qiao Jingming stared at Yan Jie for a moment, withdrew his gaze, looked up at the sky, slowly closed his eyes, and said in a cold tone: "There is no need to investigate the affairs of the owner of this courtyard! Shen Cuicui has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with Princess Yuya! There has never been this person in this world, let alone her daughter. Do you both understand?"

Yan Jie hurriedly said, "Yes! I understand!"

Ban Chen had just taken back several flying talismans and hurriedly responded: "Yes!"

Qiao Jingming said to Ban Chen: "What are you looking for? How are you looking for?"

Ban Chen replied: "I'm checking, who have been related to this courtyard over the years!"

Qiao Jingming asked, "How can you get it?"

Ban Chen replied: "I found something that happened near this courtyard not long ago, which may be related to the movements underground!"

Qiao Jingming was excited: "Talk quickly!"

Ban Chen said: "Two hours before we noticed that there was something unusual in the underground abandoned mining area, there was a monk patrolling the city who was chasing a suspicious person. After chasing the alley outside the yard, he lost his trace! I think the monk who was being pursued should be very suspicious!"

Qiao Jingming said: "Where is that monk who patrols the city now?"

Ban Chen said: "I have called him over, I should be on the way at this moment!"

Not long after, a silver-armored monk flew over from the air and fell into the courtyard. He respectfully knelt down and said, "Little Tang Yan, pay homage to the second city lord and the two lords in charge!"

Ban Chen held the air and said lightly: "Tang Yan, get up! The second city lord has something to ask you, so you must answer truthfully!"

Tang Yan stood up and said respectfully: "Yes! The young one must know everything and say everything!"

Ban Chen looked at Qiao Jingming, and saw that Qiao Jingming looked up at the sky without any intention of asking questions, so he asked himself: "More than two hours ago, did you track down someone to the alley outside and then lose it?"

When Tang Yan heard this, he didn't understand how a guy who was greedy for the beauty of a brothel woman would attract the attention of a big man like the Second City Lord. He was shocked and hurriedly knelt down again: "It's a little incompetent! Let the criminal escape, and ask the Second City Lord and the engaging in the adults to punish him!"

Ban Chen waved his hand and said, "Get up! It's not about punishing you, it's about asking you! What does that person look like, what is he doing, and how is his cultivation?"

Tang Yan hesitated for a moment: "This..."

Ban Chen said in a deep voice: "Why, do you want to hide something?"

Tang Yan was frightened by this and waved his hand quickly, "No, no! It's not like this! The young man would never dare to hide it at all! It's just that what the man did is not really big..."

Ban Chen shouted, "What did that person do? You just tell me the truth. I have my own judgment. Why do you have to hesitate here!"

When Tang Yan heard this, he had to bite the bullet and said, "That man... he was greedy for the beauty of the women in Xuexianglou, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many clients on the street. He started to fight against the street. That man was defeated by everyone, but his body skills were excellent. He could ignore the formation in the city, fly over the eaves and walk on the walls, and escaped several streets in a row! By the way, that man also knew the technique of escaping the ground! Later, I used the formation in the city to prevent him from escaping the ground, but he escaped to this neighborhood and disappeared!"

After hearing this, Ban Chen felt a little incredible: "Can you beg for beauty? Do it with a client? Go over the eaves and walls? Can you still hide in the ground?"

Tang Yan nodded repeatedly.

Ban Chen turned to Qiao Jingming and asked: "Second City Lord, look at this..."

Qiao Jingming no longer looked up at the sky and said seriously: "What this person did sounds insignificant, but the ability he showed was very extraordinary! It is not too difficult to fly over the eaves and walls. Before we became immortal cultivators, we were actually all acquired and innate warriors. It is naturally no problem to know some light skills. It was just because after practicing immortals over time, most people gradually abandoned the past ordinary martial arts! But this person can escape in the city, which is extraordinary! Don't forget that those things have been underground for a long time! Can they escape from the ground?"

Ban Chen said: "What you mean is... this person is very likely..."

Qiao Jingming raised his hand, stopped Ban Chen's words, and pointed at Tang Yan: "Let him leave that person's appearance!"

Tang Yan took out the jade slip and quickly recreated Xu Xing's appearance in the jade slip.

When handing the jade slip to Ban Chen, Tang Yan added: "By the way, that person's cultivation should be roughly at about the seventh level of foundation building!"

Ban Chen investigated the jade slips, nodded, and waved his hand to let Tang Yan leave.

After seeing the image in the jade slip, Qiao Jingming handed it back to Ban Chen and said, "Press this person's portrait everywhere in the city and offer a reward!"

"Yes!" Ban Chen responded and asked again: "Then, the reward is..."

Qiao Jingming said in a quiet voice: "A top-grade magic weapon!"

After saying that, Qiao Jingming was about to leave, Yan Jie suddenly said, "Since this person knows the technique of escaping the ground, will he sneak back to the ground after he draws out the previous movement?"

Qiao Jingming pondered: "Well, it's possible! Yan Jie, you gather reliable confidants and go down and investigate it carefully!" After that, he jumped away.

Ban Chen patted Yan Jie on the shoulder and said, "Old Yan, thank you for your hard work, you can go down and search! I will search in this city with people! Let's two of us, clarify the division of labor and see who will catch that person first!"

After seeing Ban Chen leave, Yan Jie's face looked a little ugly, and he gritted his teeth and whispered: "This... I just proposed a possibility, why did the matter fall on me alone?"

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To be continued...