Chapter 124 Trap

Lin Zhao clearly heard someone speaking behind him, but he didn't even glance back. He drew three silver needles from his body, clamped them between his fingers, and shot them towards Xie Sanbao. The moment the three silver needles entered his body, the ghostly figure on the sofa silently reached out and grabbed at Lin Zhao's back.

Just as the other party made his move, the shredded paper Lin Zhao had thrown on the table was like a martial arts master scattering hidden weapons with a technique of "countless falling flowers," shooting back towards the ghostly figure.

The female ghost in the wedding dress never expected that ordinary shredded paper would instantly turn into deadly hidden weapons. By the time she reacted, she had already been pierced through.

Countless pieces of paper flew through the air at high speed before losing their momentum and falling to the ground.

The female ghost in the wedding dress looked like a red cloth riddled with arrows, with light shining through everywhere on her body.

Before Lin Zhao could turn around, the female ghost screamed and burst out of the door, disappearing into the corridor.

Lin Zhao unhurriedly stood up, left the room, exited the hotel, and headed straight for the distant forest.

Lin Zhao chased all the way to the depths of the forest before stopping, but the person who appeared in the distance was not the female ghost in the wedding dress, but Zhang Hua, kneeling on the ground.

Judging from Zhang Hua's kneeling posture, he was waiting to greet someone, but that person hadn't appeared yet.

Out of curiosity, Lin Zhao hid behind a large tree. Before long, a young man with sword-like eyebrows, a straight nose, and thin lips appeared before Zhang Hua. Although the messy hair on his forehead slightly obscured his starry eyes, it couldn't hide the sharpness in his gaze.

The Miao sword in the man's left hand was not unsheathed, but it gave people a sense of ancient simplicity and heft. No one knew how long that long sword had been passed down, how many peerless heroes had met their demise under its blade, and even less did anyone know how many stories and legends were hidden in the flowing ancient charm of the blade.

When Zhang Hua saw the other party arrive, he immediately prostrated himself on the ground: "Subordinate Wang Peng greets the commander."

"Mm!" The other party merely nodded, but didn't tell Wang Peng to rise. Wang Peng remained kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise his head.

The man glanced intentionally or unintentionally in Lin Zhao's direction before saying, "Has Li Po arrived?"

Lin Zhao thought the other party was talking to him and was slightly startled, about to step out when Zhang Hua said at that moment, "Li Po has already fallen into the subordinate's trap. This time, he has no chance of escaping."

The man said expressionlessly, "Tell me what's going on."

Wang Peng quickly said, "After the subordinate was ordered to come here, he discovered that the manager here, Zhang Hua, was also investigating Xie Sanbao's matter. I eliminated the other party and replaced Zhang Hua's identity. Based on the clues Zhang Hua had collected, I mobilized the local Mountain Gods and Earth Gods to complete all the clues."

Lin Zhao's gaze slightly darkened: the Civil Officials faction!

The Mountain Gods and Earth Gods seemed to have low status, but they were righteous gods who had been canonized by the Underworld or the City God. Even if a sorcerer asked the Earth God for help, he could only ask politely and dare not easily offend them. However, Wang Peng used the word "mobilize," which meant that Wang Peng's status was above that of the Earth God.

Related to the Underworld and also opposing Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall), there were only the Civil Officials faction, the Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren, and the Coffin Gate.

The first thing Lin Zhao thought of was the Civil Officials faction.

Wang Peng continued, "The subordinate gave most of the clues to Li Po, but deliberately erased key information from them."

Wang Peng specially raised his head to look at the other party's expression when he said this. The other party only said faintly, "Continue."

Wang Peng said as if he was taking credit, "The subordinate used the information to leave three killing moves for Li Po and Liangjie Tang."

"Li Po only knows that sending the nine corpses back will open the gate to Erlin Town, but he doesn't know about 'Nine Corpses Connected by Fate'. The people who sent the nine corpses away back then, in order to prevent people from disturbing the peace of Erlin Town again, specially used secret techniques to connect the nine corpses to living people."

"In other words, as long as Li Po moves the nine corpses, a living person within a hundred miles will die immediately. This person is equivalent to dying at Li Po's hands. I have already arranged for ghost messengers to lie in ambush near Li Po. As soon as a person dies, the ghost messengers will immediately take action to capture him."

"With Li Po's character, he will never be captured without a fight. If he dares to kill a ghost messenger under such circumstances, he will not be able to escape the iron laws of the Underworld. If he doesn't kill the ghost messenger, he will have to be taken back to the Underworld. At that time, how to determine the crime is not up to the big boss above to decide with a single sentence."

Lin Zhao couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling in his heart when he heard this: The Underworld could ignore the life-and-death struggles between sorcerers, the annihilation of sects, and would not care whether sorcerers would seek wealth and kill, or murder employers. Because, in the eyes of the Underworld, these matters were all within the karma of the Yang realm. Whether sorcerers were guilty or not was a matter for them after they arrived in the Yin realm.

However, the Underworld did not allow sorcerers to involve innocent people when casting spells.

Once a sorcerer violated this iron law, he would be wanted by the Underworld. Very few people could escape the double pursuit of the Underworld and the sorcerer world.

Wang Peng looked at the other party again after saying this. Although the expression on the other party's face was still expressionless, his gaze had become a little gloomy.

Wang Peng didn't seem to notice the change in the other party and continued, "The only way Li Po can break the situation is to throw Lin Zhao out as a scapegoat and let her go to the Underworld to be punished. But Li Po won't do that. He would rather take all the blame himself than involve Ye Yang and Lin Zhao."

"To take a step back, even if Li Po can escape this disaster, I still have a killing move waiting for him."