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"Are you sure it's Shen Lian?"

The middle-aged man didn't talk nonsense and asked directly.

"Sure, I have verified the identity of the True Inheritance Disciple, I have verified the token, and it is absolutely unmistakable."

The disciple said respectfully.

"What mission did he take?"

"Number 079, this is..."

The disciple made some selections and handed a jade slip to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man took it for inspection, and after confirming the content of the task, he nodded slightly and returned the jade slip to the disciple.

Then suddenly two rays of light shot out from his eyes, pressing down like a mountain.

That inner disciple had never endured such pressure, and immediately knelt on the ground with a "plop", sweating profusely.

"Remember, you can't let anyone know about this matter. You never sent me a message, and I never came, understand?"

The middle-aged man warned sharply.

"Yes, disciple understands."

The other party was so frightened that he nodded repeatedly, his body couldn't help but tremble.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man nodded in satisfaction, then withdrew his momentum, and changed into an amiable tone, and said softly, "Don't worry, as long as you are honest and obedient, I will not treat you badly."

After speaking, he took out ten low-grade spirit stones from his arms and threw them to the other party.

The disciple took the spirit stone, only then did his eyes show excitement, he nodded and said repeatedly, "Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord, I will never tell, not even my own parents."

"That's good."

The middle-aged man patted his disciple on the shoulder, pondered for a moment, then disappeared without a sound.

Since the third elder ordered him to investigate secretly last time, the middle-aged man has already started to make arrangements.

He found all the information related to Shen Lian, but it's a pity that Shen Lian is just a little-known transparent bottom in the outer door.

There is not much useful news, it seems that they have just made their mark in the inner sect selection.

The only clue is that Wang Hui was Qing Yunzong who left with Shen Lian before he disappeared.

Originally, this did not prove anything, but later, the middle-aged man discovered that Shen Lian had gone to the outer door several times to look for Liu Chi'an.

According to his investigation, Shen Lian and Liu Chi'an were not familiar with each other at first, and their relationship was very ordinary, and the two had no intersection.

There is nothing special about Liu Chi'an himself, if there is, there is only one, he saw Shen Lian and Wang Hui leave Qing Yunzong together.

Liu Chi'an told himself about this.

If Shen Lian was looking for the other party because of this, then it's worth deliberating.

When the middle-aged man thought about it, Shen Lian's suspicion in his eyes suddenly increased infinitely.

He even had an intuition that even if the disappearance of Wang Hui and his son was not caused by Shen Lian, it was definitely related to him.

It's just that due to Shen Lian's identity as a true disciple, it's not easy for middle-aged people to directly arrest and interrogate him.

Can only silently wait for a good opportunity.

At this moment, Shen Lian went out to perform a mission, which gave him an opportunity.

Thinking secretly, the middle-aged man quietly left the sect, increased his speed to the extreme, and soon found Shen Lian.

But when he saw Shen Lian, he didn't make a move immediately, but secretly followed behind, not knowing what he was planning.

……

On the other side, Shen Lian didn't know that he was being followed.

He recalled the mission introduction in his mind.

Task No. 079, the content requirement is to help the villagers catch monsters and find out the reason.

The mission location is Chenjiazhuang, which is less than [-] miles away from Qing Yunzong.

On the surface, the task looks simple, but there are two key points.

First, Chenjiazhuang is very close to Qing Yunzong, and its location is even opposite to the Shadow Forest.

It stands to reason that although the monsters would occasionally run out of the Shadow Forest, how could there be monsters that crossed Qingyunzong without disturbing a few villages when there was no beast horde, but only attacked Chenjiazhuang?

How did this monster appear?

Second, the task of helping the villagers catch monsters is not just released, it has actually been released for nearly half a year.

Some disciples of Qingyun Sect went to deal with it before, and successfully killed the monsters, but after a while, new monsters will appear and attack Chenjiazhuang again.

It's as if monsters can never finish killing them.

Qing Yunzong was very puzzled by this, and the task rewards were mentioned again and again.

Up to now, the reward has reached the point where one hundred low-grade spirit stones will be issued directly after the reason is found out and the task is completely solved.

Shen Lian chose to accept it because he liked the high reward.

Thinking about the mission information in his mind, after half an hour, Shen Lian followed the map and came to Chenjiazhuang.

The population of Chenjiazhuang is very small, less than one hundred households in total.

In the mortal kingdoms of this world, the administrative levels of each place are divided into five levels: continent, prefecture, city, town, and village, from high to low.

Qingyunzong is the overlord of the southern part of Yan Kingdom, located in Baotong Prefecture, the nearest mortal city is named Panyang Mansion.

Because the whole world is full of all kinds of monsters, the mortal kingdom can only survive by relying on large sects.

Therefore, a large part of the tax revenue of the mortal kingdom has to be handed over to powerful sects, which has led to extremely high taxes and miscellaneous taxes for ordinary mortals, making survival extremely difficult.

Qingyunzong's power radiates to the two southern continents of Yan Kingdom, so a large part of all tax revenue from these two continents must be handed over to Qingyunzong.

In exchange, Qing Yunzong is responsible for protecting the safety of ordinary people in the two continents.

Sometimes the people in the city can't survive because the tax is too high, so they will spontaneously gather outside the city to live in the wilderness.

This can avoid paying taxes, of course, but also face various risks in the wild.

But the common people are very smart, they will choose a place very close to the big sect to take root, and at the same time, they will take the initiative to pay a tax to the sect every year as protection fees.

In this way, part of the country's taxation is avoided, so that everyone can barely live.

It stands to reason that this kind of situation is illegal in the mortal country, and it is absolutely not allowed to exist.

But because of the acquiescence of the big sect, the high-level mortals did not dare to wipe out at will, so there are countless small towns and villages in each country, and they are extremely complicated.

The closer it is to the big sect, the more illegal villages there will be.

Chenjiazhuang is a typical illegal village, which is almost entirely composed of the Chen clan and some close relatives and friends.

From a distance, Shen Lian could see that Chenjiazhuang was very dilapidated. The houses were basically made of wood with straw spread on the top.

The perimeter is a fence built with stones and wooden piles, many of which are damaged and have not been repaired in time.

As soon as he walked outside the village, Shen Lian heard violent monster roars and human scolding not far ahead, which seemed very chaotic.

"Huh? Just happened to be attacked by a monster? It really is better to come early than to come by coincidence."

He froze for a moment, with a surprised light in his eyes.

Whispering softly, he quickened his pace and rushed to the direction where the sound came from.

After bypassing the side of the village, a tragic battle scene appeared in front of them.