The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

Wu Lingqi brought a lot of palace guards with him, who were specially asked by the little emperor to assist Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi in solving the case. At this moment, the crime scene had been taken over by them, and the people from Bodhi Temple had also evacuated. Only the Taoist priest in charge was left to assist. The scene was brightly lit by multiple torches, and it was not much darker than during the day.

Chu Yunxi once again squatted in front of the corpse and began to examine the body, starting with the Four Young Masters of Qingcheng. After a careful inspection, she found the problem. Although the wounds on the corpse were all sword wounds, there seemed to be a barb on the sword. When the sword was drawn, a small piece of flesh was brought out next to each wound. Because the wounds themselves were bloody and blurred, it was extremely difficult to see. If Chu Yunxi had not checked very carefully, she would have almost missed this detail.

But what is this barb used for? Chu Yunxi told Xiao Mubei about this discovery. He had never seen such a sword before, so naturally he had no idea.

After noting this suspicious point, Chu Yunxi continued to examine the body. She found that the murderer had no method for killing people. Although his martial arts skills were very high, which was a far cry from these people, his methods of killing were different. Some used swords to cut throats, some stabbed the heart with swords, and some pierced the chest from the back. His methods were varied and seemed to be done at will.

In addition, Chu Yunxi also discovered that the wounds of the four young masters of Qingcheng were generally deeper than those of their followers, which showed that the murderer was ruthless when he killed the four of them, and those followers were just killed as a by-product.

After Chu Yunxi finished examining the body, she stood up and pounded her waist. She saw Xiao Mubei and Wen Rulan looking around for signs of a fight, but Wu Lingqi was standing not far away, looking at her. He seemed to want to come over, but his face was full of fear. It was obvious that he wanted to follow her, but because he had never experienced such a scene, he did not dare to face the corpse directly, so he never came over.

Chu Yunxi smiled and said to Wu Lingqi, "Afraid?"

Wu Lingqi immediately stiffened his neck and said stubbornly, "Who's scared? I...I'm just afraid of disturbing you while you're doing the autopsy."

Chu Yunxi was used to such tough talk. Bai Yu, Hei Mu, and even Xiao Mubei all went through the same thing. She patted Wu Lingqi on the shoulder and whispered, "It's normal to be afraid. You won't be afraid if you see it more often."

Wu Lingqi pursed his lips and wanted to explain that he was not afraid, but he felt that it would only make things more obvious, so he swallowed it in the end.

Turning around, he saw Chu Yunxi bending over and looking at something on the ground. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Sister Princess, what are you looking at?"

Chu Yunxi didn't look up. She looked and explained to him, "I'm looking at the footprints on the ground."

Wu Lingqi lowered his head and saw footprints everywhere on the ground. The soil on the ground was trampled in a mess. He couldn't help but frown and said, "What can we see from this?"

Chu Yunxi squatted down, pointed at the pile of footprints in front of her and said, "There are many things we can see. For example, this must be the center of the fight, because the footprints here are the most messy, which means that the four young masters of Qingcheng were attacked when they walked here. They were suddenly attacked, and the crowd was suddenly in chaos. Everyone was busy fighting the enemy, so the footprints were messy, with toes pointing in all directions. This shows that the people who came here are very skilled in martial arts and can move to all directions in an instant. That's why these people kept circling and fighting the enemy, but it's obvious that the result was that they were too weak and were solved in one move."

Wu Lingqi was dumbfounded. "Just based on a bunch of messy footprints, you actually reconstructed the entire murder process?"

Chu Yunxi found it a little funny. "This is just a rough process. We can't determine which footprint is the murderer's. If we can determine the murderer's footprint, we can figure out whether the murderer is a man or a woman, height, weight, etc., then it will be much easier for us to solve the case."

Wu Lingqi looked at the footprints on the ground in disbelief and was speechless. At this time, Xiao Mubei said not far away: "Perhaps, this is the murderer's footprint."

Chu Yunxi looked over and saw Xiao Mubei squatting on the ground, looking at a footprint. She hurried over and saw a shallow footprint. As expected, this mountain road was a dirt road, everyone who passed by would leave footprints. At this moment, in front of Xiao Mubei, there was a very shallow half footprint.

Chu Yunxi looked around and didn't see any other footprints. This place was about ten feet away from the fighting area. She asked, "How can you be sure that this is the murderer's footprint?"

Xiao Mubei looked at Wen Rulan who had just flown down from the tree, and the latter replied, "Because I found half a footprint of the same size on the tree."

Chu Yunxi understood immediately that the murderer must have excellent Qinggong skills, so he could disappear without a trace immediately after killing people. According to her judgment, the time of death of these people was just before they came over. After they came over, Baiyu and Heimu basically went to search around immediately, but did not find any trace of the murderer. This shows that the murderer must have good Qinggong skills. People with good Qinggong skills usually have a common problem, that is, they like to walk on trees. Therefore, this footprint must have been left by the murderer when he was trying to climb the tree. Apart from that, there were almost no footprints left on the ground.

So Chu Yunxi squatted down again to look at the half footprint, which was left by the forefoot. Based on the width of the footprint, Chu Yunxi judged that the murderer was a male with a strong build and a height of about five feet eight inches. Analyzing from the direction of the footprints on the ground to the footprints on the tree, the murderer did not go down the mountain after killing the person, but went up the mountain instead.

This ruled out the little nun, but Chu Yunxi still frowned and said, "Could it be that the murderer is still on the mountain now?"

However, there is more than one way down the mountain. Although other ways are a little more difficult to walk on, given the murderer's good lightness skills, I believe that if he wanted to go down the mountain, he could definitely find another way. After all, he would walk more often through the trees.

However, Chu Yunxi was more inclined to believe that the murderer was still on the mountain at the moment, because since he went up the mountain after killing someone, it meant that he either lived on the mountain or had something important to bring back to the mountain. There were still many pilgrims staying at Bodhi Temple. Could it be that the murderer was mixed in with the pilgrims, or did he have companions? Or was the murderer a Taoist priest at Bodhi Temple?

Every possibility must not be missed. It would be best to check the people on the mountain right now. Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei decided to start the investigation from Bodhi Temple. At the same time, they asked the palace guards to temporarily block the way down the mountain and try to keep the murderer on the mountain. If all the people on the mountain were cleared of suspicion, they would then let them go down the mountain.

Chu Yunxi told her idea to the Taoist priest in charge of Bodhi Temple. He had no objection and only said that the food in the temple was enough for the people to survive for two days. If the real culprit could not be found after two days, they would have to send the two Taoist priests down the mountain to buy food.