I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

Viewers in the live stream were filled with questions.

Just as he was about to leave, Li Lin saw a purple cat's head peeking out from outside the crowd.

Master Li immediately put on a righteous face: "You guessed wrong. A righteous person like me always helps those in need."

183 Beware of Zhongli

Before everyone's eyes, a decomposing female corpse was stuck in the waterway of Tiger-Eating Rock. Her giant arms were squeezed out of the waterway's sluice gate, pale to the point of being blinding.

The stench of fish was already pervasive under the sun, a smell as pungent as salted fish that was unsettling. People were talking amongst themselves, both curious and worried, pointing and whispering about the female corpse.

"Where is the General Affairs Department? Where is the Sen'iwa Army?!"

A clear shout rang out from the crowd, and everyone made way for a girl in a purple cloud-patterned satin robe to step out.

The sight of the pale female corpse made Ke Qing frown, and the foul stench made her even more uneasy. She quickly turned around and gave orders to the Qianyan Army and the General Affairs Department personnel who had rushed over.

A series of orderly commands came from the girl's mouth, and the somewhat chaotic situation immediately stabilized.

“I am Keqing, the Yuheng Star of the Liyue Seven Stars. I am now in full charge of this place. Thousand Rock Army, you are to evacuate the unrelated civilians and maintain order.”

"Yes, Lord Keqing." Chiayi, a Senyan Army officer, paused with his spear in hand, then led his comrades to persuade the onlookers to leave the scene.

"General Affairs Department, immediately report this matter to the other Seven Stars, and have Ningguang draft the regulations and issue a public announcement as soon as possible to control public opinion."

"Yes." The officers from the General Affairs Department hurried away.

"Send people to swim upstream along the waterway of Chihu Rock, focusing on patrolling the Feiyunpo area. Send someone to the law firm to find Yanfei and draft a compensation agreement as soon as possible. Also, inform Ningguang about this matter."

"The water source for Chihuyan is temporarily unavailable."

"Also, go and inform Bubulu to have Mr. Baishu come to Chihuyan as soon as possible." Ignoring her clothes, Keqing jumped directly into the waterway, which was chest-deep. The pungent smell made her expression slightly distorted. "The weather is getting warmer. I don't know how long this female corpse has been soaking. It may cause an epidemic... Ugh—someone come and lend a hand."

Those who possess the Eye of God have much better physical abilities than ordinary people, but precisely because of this, the smell of rotting corpses is also exceptionally pungent.

The sight of the giant's flesh causing his five fingers to sink into it was an unpleasant sensation.

The fact that the seven Liyue Stars personally went down to retrieve the corpse was astonishing, catching the surrounding Thousand Rock Army and General Affairs Department members off guard.

When they came to their senses, a strange figure had already appeared at the waterway.

"Be careful," Li Lin said softly, then extended his right palm and slowly clenched it into a fist.

Li Lin's fist made contact with the ground and then separated.

The bluestone pavement suddenly exploded, and the female corpse that had been blocking the waterway was swept out by the turbulent current, allowing Ke Qing to pull it out of the sluice gate and drag it ashore.

"Thank you."

Soaked to the bone, Keqing smiled awkwardly, whispered something to the General Affairs Department members who surrounded her, and then hurriedly ran into a clothing store by the roadside.

"Hello, I am Tu Mi, an officer from the General Affairs Department." A General Affairs Department officer with a neat single ponytail said to Li Lin, "Lady Keqing is changing clothes, please wait here."

Although it was called changing clothes, the waiting time was actually quite long. After Li Lin had changed two pots of Biluochun tea, Ke Qing, who had changed into another light purple dress, walked out of the shop. She had a hint of the fragrance of Nissan flowers on her body, which masked the previous smell.

"Hello, I am Keqing, the Yuheng Star of the Liyue Seven Stars. I'm sorry that you witnessed this scene."

Keqing's twin ponytails swayed back and forth as her gaze swept over Li Lin and Shen He's divine eyes, before her expression turned slightly serious.

"First of all, thank you for your help, but I still want to ask, do you have any clues about this female corpse?"

"Good question!" Li Lin, now in the zone, tapped his finger lightly on the table, his expression stern.

A few comments silently floated past my eyes.

[The Kingslayer: "See? That's how this guy tricked me into joining his scheme."]

[Fighter Talulah: "Maybe it's because you're a bit silly..."]

[The regicide: "You dare to talk back to me?!"]

Li Lin's cold expression remained unchanged as he calmly said, "It seems this female corpse was murdered."

"Oh? How do you know?" Ke Qing's expression became even more serious. If it was murder, then the nature of the crime was even more serious.

"If it was suicide, why use such a contorted posture?" Li Lin smiled almost imperceptibly, as if looking at someone with intellectual disabilities. "If you still have doubts, you can ask Zhongli, a guest elder of the Hall of Rebirth, to come here."

"Oh right, the Hall of Rebirth!" Ke Qing slapped her forehead and quickly instructed Tu Mi, who was waiting at the door, "Go to the Hall of Rebirth and ask someone to come and take a look."

As the "department" responsible for the funeral industry in the Liyue region for thousands of years, the Hall of Rebirth also serves as a forensic pathologist and coroner, and they are experts in handling these unusual and unexpected events.

As for Zhongli... that gentleman is indeed knowledgeable about everything, and seems to be able to talk about anything in a very reasonable way. However, this is a post-mortem examination. Is he reliable?

Just as Tu Mi stepped out the door, a cheerful and lively voice came from outside: "Oh my, oh my, the busiest person among the Liyue Seven Stars actually came all the way to invite me. I'm so flattered. But, my appearance fee is very expensive, you know."

"Yanfei, you can discuss Mora's matter with Ningguang later." Keqing stood up, ushering the young immortal from outside into the hall. She then introduced him to Li Lin and Shen He, who were sitting at the table, "This is Yanfei, the most renowned legal consultant in Liyue Harbor. And these two are..."

Ke Qing paused halfway through her sentence, a faint blush rising on her fair cheeks.

She realized she had forgotten to ask Li Lin and Shen He their names.

Compared to the censored versions of Gan Yu and Shen He, Ke Qing and Yan Fei's outfits are almost identical to those in the game.

The newcomer was none other than Yan Fei. Her white, jade-like antlers peeked out from between her hair. The fairy-like girl wore a crooked lawyer's hat on her head, and an inconspicuous handwritten law book hung from her waist.

Her gaze swept over the seemingly profound Li Lin, then lingered on the otherworldly Shen He. As if she had thought of something, she tentatively asked, "True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng...?"

Before Shen He could answer, Yan Fei waved her hand with a smile: "Oh, don't be nervous. Well, I'm not familiar with Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun."

"You two know each other?" Ke Qing looked at Yan Fei and Shen He suspiciously.

"I don't know you." Yan Fei blinked. "We're meeting for the first time today."

“Miss Yanfei and I have never met before,” Shen He replied calmly. “My name is Shen He, and I am a disciple of the True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng.”

"An immortal... that's fine too." Ke Qing nodded, then turned to look at Li Lin, "And what about you, sir?"

"Could he be an immortal too?" Master Ke made a joke, something he hadn't done in a long time, as if to ease the tension.

Li Lin's dark eyes were like a long night. He tapped the table lightly with his finger and uttered three words: "Crazy without realizing it."

To prove his identity, he also recited a poem: "Laughing at the vast ocean where a thousand armies are broken, strategizing to determine the universe and calculating cause and effect, without feeling or fear, taking life and death lightly, neither ghost nor god, like a madman."

"hiss--"

"Wow."

"..."

The three people in the hall reacted differently.

Ke Qing was a little confused by the sudden poem title, and could only awkwardly but politely gasp; Yan Fei was shocked by the seemingly profound poem title and was somewhat excited; as for Shen He, she was already used to it.

"This guy, uh, is crazy..."

Before Ke Qing could finish speaking, footsteps sounded again outside the door.

"Oh my, oh my, oh my, isn't this Lady Keqing? And Yanfei is here too. What a coincidence! I had some free time today, so I came to pay a visit—"

A girl dressed in the exclusive uniform of the Hall of Rebirth darted in like the wind.

Her upper body was completely covered, but her two long, fair legs were eye-catching, and her small leather shoes made a crisp sound on the stone slabs.

"The Hall Master's eccentric personality has caused you all some trouble." The guest elder following behind the Hall Master of the Hall of Rebirth walked to Li Lin's table with his hands behind his back, a slight smile playing on his lips. "It's been a while, Mr. Li, how have you been?"

"Oh my, this is the first time I've seen Zhongli so attentive to someone?" The Master of the Rebirth Hall, with a blood-red plum blossom stuck in the brim of his hat, released Ke Qing from his hand and curiously leaned closer. "Oh, Mr. Li? I've heard so much about you."

“Li…” Ke Qing looked at Li Lin, “But didn’t you say your name was Feng Bujue?”

"Feng Bujue is my name in the underworld. I also have another name, Huai Shi, and people call me Little Peppa Pig of Huaihai Road."

Ke Qing became more and more confused as she listened, and wisely didn't ask any further questions.

Just because she let Li Lin go doesn't mean that Master Li will let her go so easily.

Amidst the strange looks from the crowd, Li Lin leisurely stood up and walked to Ke Qing's side, loudly plotting, "Be careful of Zhong Li."

Ke Qing hesitated, thinking to herself, "Didn't you ask him to come?"

Seeing Zhongli enjoying his tea without saying anything, Keqing couldn't contain her curiosity and asked, "Why?"

"No one named Zhongli is a good person."

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Li Lin not only plotted in secret, but also frequently winked at Zhong Li, as if afraid of missing out on the Heavenly Movement of the Rock God.

Zhongli's teacup trembled twice, revealing a complex smile on his face.

He never expected Li Lin to be so petty...

Ke Qing opened her mouth, thinking of making a way to smooth things over, but realized that anything she said at this moment would sound sarcastic, so she wisely kept her mouth shut.

It was the ever-familiar head of the Rebirth Hall who broke the deadlock: "Oh dear, this Mr. Li is truly a man of character! Actually, Zhongli, this old-fashioned fellow, is good in every way, except for his personality..."

"Ahem." Seeing that his son was about to reveal all his secrets, Master Zhong quickly stopped the bleeding. "Getting back to the point, the Seven Stars summoning us must mean they have something important to ask us about. I wonder if you could answer a few questions for us?"

"Hmm." Keqing stood up, closed the hall door herself, and then sat down at the table. "This matter is quite serious, so I had to call you all here. Just now, a female corpse that had been bubbling and decomposing was found in the waterway of Tiger Rock. As we all know, the water system of Tiger Rock and Scarlet Cloud Slope is connected, and the lives of many people in Liyue are tied to this place."

"Now it's not just a matter of disposing of corpses. As the weather gets warmer, there's a risk of disease outbreaks—I think Master Hu Tao hasn't forgotten the original purpose of establishing the Hall of Rebirth, has he?"

Upon hearing Master Ke's words, Hu Tao's playful expression vanished, replaced by a serious one as she sat down in her chair: "Of course I remember."

The wicked offspring of the war between demons and gods, the lingering resentment of the dead demons, and the deadly poisons deep within the earth's veins—all sorts of vicious miasma once lingered across the land, growing rampant and turning those infected with the plague into mindless corpses. Even their dead bodies could not find peace.