Chapter 2381 (Two Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-one) Outside

“Yes.” Li Pingrun said, “Patriarch, I actually saw the black circle on the wall when I came in just now.”

“Oh? Why didn’t you tell me earlier when you saw the black circle?” Tie Wandao said.

“Chief, we all noticed the passage over there first. You asked me about the passage, and you wanted to come in right away…”

Tie Wandao immediately said: “You didn’t tell me right away, and you blame me?”

“No, it’s not your fault,” said Li Pingrun.

Tie Jinjue said: “Just now, when we saw that the things blocking the passage had been moved aside, everyone was very surprised and sometimes they couldn’t think about other things.”

Tie Wandao felt that what Tie Jinjue said made sense, so he stopped blaming Li Pingrun for not telling him about the black circle on the wall in time, and said, “Didn’t you say you were going to look for those relics? Look for them now!”

Li Pingrun didn’t know where to look, so he just looked in the room where the suicide victims’ belongings were previously placed, but found nothing.

Seeing that he was not in a hurry to perform the ritual, Tie Wandao said, “I don’t care about anything else. Perform the ritual now and see if the relics are still in this room.”

Li Pingrun was probably long gone, but there was nothing he could do, so he said, “Yes, clan leader.”

“Does the ritual take a long time?” Tie Wandao asked.

“Not long.” Li Pingrun said.

“How long?” Tie Wandao asked.

Li Pingrun told him.

Tie Wandao felt that the time was short enough, so he asked him to perform the ritual quickly.

Li Pingrun knew that this approach was meaningless, but since Tie Wandao had already given the order, it would be difficult for him not to do it.

After Li Pingrun performed the ritual quickly, Tie Wandao asked, “Are you here?”

“Not here.” Li Pingrun said. “Where do you think it is?” Tie Wandao asked again.

“Patriarch, it’s hard for me to guess.” Li Pingrun said, “I think it’s very likely that he was taken outside the Muxi Pavilion.”

“Let me ask you, after the Soul-Consolidating Talisman is removed, will those relics become ordinary things?” Tie Wandao asked.

“For ordinary people, this should be the case.” Li Pingrun replied.

“Oh?” Tie Wandao asked, “Then for whom this is not the case?”

“I’m not sure either…” Li Pingrun said.

“You’re not sure either, right? You’re not sure again! Guess what’s going on?” Tie Wandao said unhappily.

“Chief, I guess… could it be possible… that some people who know magic could see something from these things that were once related to the Soul-Gongling Talisman? But the possibility is simply too small!” Li Pingrun said.

“If someone who knows magic has this ability, what can that person see?” Tie Wandao asked.

“At most, we can tell roughly when the Soul-Consolidating Talisman was removed.” Li Pingrun replied.

“Can’t you see anything else?” Tie Wandao asked. He didn’t want the person who took the relics to learn too much from this incident.

“It’s hard to tell.” Li Pingrun said, “In fact, after removing the Soul Strengthening Talisman, these relics are nothing special anymore.”

“Who would take those relics away?” Tie Wandao asked again.

Li Pingrun replied, “I can’t think of it either. Let me look at the Guanji Fan, but through the Guanji Fan I can only know the situation in the basement next to the Muxi Pavilion. If the remains of the person who committed suicide have really been taken out of the Muxi Pavilion, even if I look at the Guanji Fan I can’t know where those remains were taken.”

“Are you watching here?” Tie Wandao asked.

(End of this chapter)