Wandering among the heavens, learning has no end.

"Pah! I want you to praise me! Tell me, what exactly are you up to?"

"What can I do? Help you solve the case. If we find out who tampered with the Children's Recognition Competition, we'll most likely be able to find out how Sect Leader Wang died and who killed him."

"How do you know that Sect Leader Wang was murdered and not truly ascended to immortality through metamorphosis?"

"Heh, you don't even believe I can bring people back to life, but you believe in ascending to immortality through shedding the cicada's skin?"

"Of course I don't believe it... Tell me, what's the deal between Master Tie Xiao and the Third Young Master Shi?"

"This great swordsman Tie Xiao encountered an enemy and had no choice but to jump off a cliff. He didn't actually die after jumping. Others mistakenly thought he was dead and buried him. I happened to come across him and dug him out."

As for the third young master of the Shi family, he was determined to pass the imperial examinations, but like you, he couldn't get the support of his family. So he faked his suicide, and I happened to witness it. I saw through it, but I didn't expose him.

Neither of them died a glorious death, so naturally they wouldn't reveal the truth. And so, slowly, it became the story that I was the one who brought them back to life.

"I knew it! So your reputation as a miracle doctor was just something you swindled!"

"How can you say I'm a fraud? I just happened to run into this. My reputation was spread by other people."

"Who knows why you keep getting into these kinds of things."

"Hmm...who knows."

As they spoke, the four of them had already entered the house.

"Returning to Rest" exercise.

Ji Yuan looked at the golden statue and spoke.

"Ok?"

Fang Duobing was puzzled for a moment, wondering why the Guixi Gong was being brought up again.

Fang Duobing seemed to realize something, and looked at Wang Qingshan's golden statue, his hand gesture being the same as that of the Returning Breath Technique.

Fang Duobing hurriedly reached out to check if Wang Qingshan was still alive.

"Don't bother looking. The Returning Breath Technique can only last for three days at most; he'll be dead by now."

The murderer who killed this Sect Leader Wang must be one of his three disciples and that steward.

Li Lianhua spoke first.

Fang Duobing's mind raced: "Wang Qingshan faked his death using the Returning Breath Technique. This Returning Breath Technique requires someone to use acupuncture to wake him up within three days, otherwise he will really die."

In other words, the murderer who killed Wang Qingshan was most likely his three apprentices or his steward.

As Fang Duobing was muttering to himself, Li Lianhua sat down and picked up a copy of the Three Character Classic from the side. This Three Character Classic was also Wang Qingshan's personal possession.

Li Lianhua flipped through the Three Character Classic and quickly figured out what exactly happened in the case.

How could Wang Qingshan, a man in his forties, possibly carry a copy of the Three Character Classic with him? This Three Character Classic is usually read by children who are only a few years old.

Combining this with the proverb left by Wang Qingshan, which had been altered, he noticed that the age of the spirit child, originally written as six years old, had been changed to sixteen years old by adding a character.

Moreover, the proverbs were cut out.

The cut-off proverbs should contain methods to identify the true lamas.

Wang Qingshan was a man who valued money above all else. He organized this Lingshan Child Recognition Conference, and it was definitely not to hand over all of the Lingshan Sect's property.

Therefore, he must have an illegitimate child.

This illegitimate child is exactly six years old, and should be surnamed Helan.

The Lingshan Sect does not allow marriage. If there is an illegitimate child, the child will generally take the mother's surname.

Another name was recorded in this Three Character Classic, which was He Lan.

It is highly likely the name of Wang Qingshan's illegitimate son.

Therefore, the murderer must have known about this matter, and the idea of ​​faking his death to pass the throne to his own son may have also come from the murderer.

Wang Qingshan hadn't expected that, despite the good plan, the Lingshan Sect's vast wealth meant that even close relatives couldn't be trusted so easily.

So, he was murdered, and the prophecy was altered to interfere, with someone trying to make the person he chose become the reincarnation.

……

Then, Li Lianhua instructed Fang Duobing to scrape the lips of the golden statue, which had bloodstains on them.

Then, after scraping the back of the golden statue, a large black handprint was seen.

Fang Duobing immediately recognized it as the Five Poison Palm, the signature move of Xin Lei, the Thunderclap Hand of the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance.

In other words, the person who killed Wang Qingshan was Xin Lei.

He hadn't forgotten that Baichuan Academy had received information that Wang Qingshan had recently sent a letter saying he had discovered the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance's communication code and suspected that there were remnants of the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance in Jiaozhou City.

Now it seems there's no doubt that there are remnants of their evil deeds.

Moreover, this remnant may have discovered the letter Wang Qingshan wrote to Baichuan Academy, which is why he killed Wang Qingshan.

"This guy is really stupid. Wang Qingshan had already used the Returning Breath Technique. If he had waited for the three of them, they would have naturally died from holding their breath. But he still insisted on giving them another blow, and it was his own signature move."

Ji Yuan shook his head and said.

"Those members of the Demonic Sect are definitely suspicious by nature. He probably doesn't believe that the Returning Breath Technique needs someone to administer acupuncture to awaken it, so just in case, he added a palm strike."

As for why he used his signature move, it was probably due to arrogance; he was so arrogant that he thought no one could catch him.

Even if his Five Poison Palm technique were discovered, he probably wouldn't think anyone could identify him.

Li Lianhua spoke slowly.

"I didn't expect there to be remnants of the Demonic Cult in Jiaozhou. I must capture him!"

Fang Duobing also spoke up.

"Young Master Fang, if we help you capture him, please let us go."

Li Lianhua smiled and looked at Fang Duobing.

"We'll see. We'll have to see if your actions can offset your mistakes."

Fang Duobing said with a touch of arrogance.

"Let's go to the place where this sect leader ascended to immortality and see if we can find any more clues."

Li Lianhua stood up as she spoke.

Afterwards, the group arrived at the square where Wang Qingshan ascended to immortality.

Soon, the group discovered the mechanism in the square.

First, there's a mechanism at the place where Wang Qingshan is sitting that leads directly down to a small secret room. Inside this secret room, there's a golden statue that looks exactly like Wang Qingshan.

This Thunder Hand Xin Lei, I wonder if he's really arrogant.

Not only did they kill Wang Qingshan, but they also hid the completed golden statue and instead covered Wang Qingshan's body in gold leaf before displaying it in the open.

Ji Yuan thought that he was probably greedy and wanted to keep the real golden statue for himself.

After all, it's made of gold, so this thing is quite valuable.

Having discovered the secret room, Fang Duobing also discovered two brass mirrors installed under the eaves of the second floor of a tower behind the square.

The story of the cicada shedding its skin and ascending to immortality was actually a trick that used sunlight and two bronze mirrors to dazzle the people in the hall, making them unable to see clearly the switch of the golden statues.

Li Lianhua showed Fang Duobing the Three Character Classic.

Then he explained to Fang Duobing why Wang Qingshan had faked his death.

The details of the case are now clear, so the task at hand is to find the Thunder Hand.