The First Academy in the Cultivation World

The child who disappeared from the inn was called Xu Chun. He disappeared in the backyard of the inn. Unlike Zhou Ya, someone knew about his disappearance as soon as he disappeared.

The waiter at the inn said that when he was delivering the teapot upstairs and passing through the backyard, Xu Chun was playing with his wooden horse. When he came back after delivering the teapot, he only saw the shaking wooden horse but not Xu Chun.

Because he came down from upstairs, he casually asked someone in the kitchen: "Did Xu Chun go into the kitchen to play?"

The person in the kitchen said no, he didn't realize Xu Chun was missing at that time.

It was not until he went out and walked around and asked the person at the counter and they said they hadn't seen Xu Chun that he started looking for him, but by then he couldn't find him anymore.

Ling Yan'er followed everyone into the backyard. There was only a well, a swing, a wooden horse and some miscellaneous items in the yard.

Ling Yan'er looked down at her phone and saw a yellow light spot on the wooden horse.

There is only one, and according to Ling Yaner's experience in playing games, it is most likely a wisp of demonic energy.

After she, Ling Ziye, Dongfang Zichu and the others in front of her had finished their investigation and left the inn, Ling Yan'er walked to the front of the Trojan horse and clicked on the light spot on her mobile phone.

Sure enough, a wisp of demonic energy appeared on the back of the wooden horse and then dissipated into the air.

Ling Ziye, who was following Ling Yan'er this time, said, "The demon cultivator didn't show up here in person. He..."

Ling Ziye frowned, not knowing whether to say clone or formation.

After the demonic energy dissipated and could no longer be felt, Ling Yan'er said, "Let's move on to the next one."

Ling Ziye looked up at the sky and said, "Let's stay here tonight. There's a curfew tonight, so we probably won't be able to make it."

The third missing person was an eight-year-old boy. Like Zhou Ya, his family was relatively poor. He and Zhou Ya were going in opposite directions, and it took them an hour and a half to get there by carriage.

Ling Yan'er then glanced at her phone and found that it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.

After Ling Yan'er and Ling Ziye booked two rooms, she and Dongfang Zichu finished their meal and returned to their room, but were visited by the proprietress of the inn.

She placed a piece of talisman paper with a missing corner on the table in front of Ling Yan'er, lowering her head and choking with sobs as she said, "Actually, I found this on the wooden horse where Xiaochun disappeared. I haven't told anyone about it. I hope it can be useful in tracking down the murderer."

"Why didn't you tell them when so many people asked you before?" Ling Yan'er took the talisman paper and examined it. She couldn't see anything with the naked eye.

The proprietress gave a wry smile and said, "I really don't dare. You saw how they questioned me this afternoon."

Ling Yan'er had indeed seen that when those immortal cultivators came to ask, they all had a condescending and arrogant attitude. After all, those who dared to come to the demon cultivators in this situation had all started at the Golden Core stage, and very few of them were kind to mortals.

She paused, then continued, "I have a feeling that the one who will find Xiaochun is you. If she's alive, I want her to be found. If she's dead, I want her body to be found. I can't let Xiaochun be buried in the wilderness and become a wandering ghost."

"Don't worry, sister. I will do my best to help you find Xiaochun and punish the murderer." Ling Yan'er said.

The proprietress smiled bitterly, told Ling Yan'er to have a good rest, and left.

After she left, Ling Yan'er took the talisman paper and looked at it carefully. It was bright yellow talisman paper with patterns and words painted in cinnabar on it.

She asked Dongfang Zichu, "Do you recognize what this talisman is?"

Dongfang Zichu shook his head: "The talismans used by demon cultivators are different from ours."

Ling Yan'er put the talisman paper into her backpack and checked the description from the backpack: One-time teleportation talisman, damaged.

"It's a teleportation talisman," Ling Yan'er said, then asked Dongfang Zichu, "Is there a way to transform into a paper crane to find someone?"

Dongfang Zichu nodded: "There is such a thing, what's the matter?"

Ling Yan'er said, "I feel like the demon cultivator might have transformed into a bird or butterfly or something and flown into the yard, using a teleportation talisman to take Xu Chun away."

After all, no one saw Xu Chun come out, and the evil spirit on the wooden horse also confirmed that Xu Chun disappeared from the wooden horse.

In the backyard, no one except the innkeepers entered, and the shopkeeper guarding the door did not see any strangers entering the backyard. Of course, it was not done by the innkeepers themselves, and no one was contaminated with evil spirits.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Dongfang Zichu said.

Ling Yan'er put away her cell phone, lay on the bed and instructed Dongfang Zichu to blow out the candle and go to sleep.

After waking up the next day and having dinner, Ling Ziye and Ling Yan'er got on a carriage and headed to the next destination.

In the carriage, Ling Ziye took out a piece of talisman paper and said, "Last night, the boss lady knocked on my door and gave me a damaged teleportation talisman, saying that she found it on a wooden horse."

Ling Yan'er and Dongfang Zichu exchanged a glance, and Ling Yan'er took out a piece of talisman paper from her backpack and said, "What a coincidence! She gave me one too."

Ling Yan'er took the talisman paper from Ling Ziye and compared them, saying in surprise, "These two talismans are exactly the same!"

Not only is the content the same, but even the wrinkles, angles, and cracks are exactly the same!

Ling Ziye took the talisman paper from Ling Yan'er and looked at it, and found that the two talismans were indeed exactly the same.

"This..." Ling Ziye said, "She is a mortal, where did she get the talisman paper? These two are exactly the same, it's really a bit strange."

Ling Yan'er remembered the description of the talisman in her backpack: a one-time teleportation talisman, damaged.

If it was something belonging to a demon cultivator, it should have been prefixed with "demon cultivator." And if it was a used teleportation talisman, it should have followed the person, so how could it have remained on the Trojan horse?

She suddenly looked at Ling Ziye: "Is it possible... that this talisman paper was actually a hint given to her by other cultivators, asking her to take it out to disrupt her vision?"

After all, those who find and kill the demon cultivator can not only obtain a magic weapon of the Nascent Soul stage, but also a thousand high-grade spirit stones. Money is very tempting.

In order to interfere with others who were tracking down the demon cultivator, someone made some broken teleportation talismans, and then used spiritual power to tear off a corner at the same time. No one would look at the damaged talismans carefully.

And because the proprietress came to the door quietly and said that she would only give you one, the monk who wanted to keep it for himself would naturally not share this news.

Ling Yan'er and Ling Ziye didn't say anything, and the proprietress probably thought they were not familiar with each other.

After all, after entering the inn, Ling Yan'er and Ling Ziye didn't talk much and didn't seem to be very familiar with each other.

Who would have thought that as soon as they left the inn, the two of them started exchanging news.

Ling Ziye looked at the two pieces of talisman paper. Because they had been torn by someone, they could not be activated. He really couldn't tell whether it was demonic energy or spiritual energy. He thought about the possibilities in Ling Yan'er's words.

I have to admit that what Ling Yan'er said might be true. The first one left two drops of blood and a purse on Zhou Ya's body, which meant that he was seriously injured.

Even if the teleportation talisman was really left behind the second time, there would not be two identical ones left behind. It is more likely that someone did it to interfere with the pursuit.