As soon as Ma Xiao announced the result of the game, Li Xuan respectfully bowed to Ma Xiao, and walked off the fighting stage and returned to the audience. He wanted to finish the next game and enter the semi-finals before rushing to the New Southwest Marquis' Mansion to see the situation. However, what he didn't expect was that the second place in the quarter-finals was soon eliminated, and this one was Yun Xiang who had played with him before. Therefore, Li Xuan entered the semi-finals without having to play, because after Yun Xiang saw Li Xuan and Gu Qingtian's battle, he claimed that he was not Li Xuan's opponent and announced that he gave up the game, allowing Li Xuan to enter the semi-finals directly.

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Wudao Peak is located in the outer city of Yunzhou City, while New Southwest Hou Mansion is located in the inner city. The distance between the two is at least 400 miles. Even Li Xuan rode the Level 4 monster Blood Crown Crown and Wind Beast, it would take more than an hour to arrive. However, Yunzhou City is a state city after all, an eternal city, with convenient transportation that other counties cannot match. There are portals or teleportation arrays in many places in the inner and outer city. As long as you have money, you can enter and exit the portal in an instant.

Li Xuan came out of Wudao Peak and took less than half an hour to reach the New Southwest Housing Mansion. When he arrived at the artificial lake that was being excavated, the workers and idle people within a radius of one mile centered on the artificial lake had been emptied by Fu Dahai and Huang Mei'e. Only Fu Dahai and Huang Mei'e were guarding outside the muddy artificial lake, looking at the more than thirty corpses in the lake and a box wrapped in mud with a look of surprise.

"What's going on?" Li Xuan walked to Fu Dahai and Huang Mei'e, while using the Breaking Mirror to observe the situation in the lake, he asked the two people who were guarding the lake for a long time.

"I'm not very clear! I only know that when these workers were digging the lake, they accidentally dug out a strange box. They thought there was something good inside, so they wanted to open the box. Then the gardeners who were repairing flowers and plants on the lakeshore saw them laughing three times and fell to the ground and died!" Huang Mei'e said with a delicate little face when she heard this.

"Uncle Fu, what do you think?" In Li Xuan's delusion mirror, the box was just a black shadow and could not see anything at all. This made Li Xuan frown and said to Uncle Fu, who had a serious face beside him.

"It's hard to say!" Fu Dahai shook his head when he heard this, then frowned and said with a serious expression, "Yunzhou City is an eternal city that cannot be studied in history. It is protected by a magical force underground. Even if the martial arts are strong, it is impossible to find out. I have heard people say that you should be careful when digging soil in Yunzhou City, otherwise it is very likely that you will accidentally dig out a fierce object! I just smiled when I heard it, but I didn't expect that we would really encounter this time!"

"There are many legends left by Yunzhou City over the ages, and I have heard of this!" Li Xuan nodded when he heard this, then looked at a corpse a hundred feet away and asked, "Did you get that corpse from the lake, Uncle Fu?"

"Well! I brought it up not long ago, and I want to check what the cause of their death is!" Fu Dahai nodded when he heard this, looking at him and talking to him, while Li Xuan was walking and thinking about the corpse, and hurriedly said to Li Xuan, "Young master, these corpses are very strange, you must be defended enough! Otherwise, they may be covered with some unclean things!" Fu Dahai said as he burst out with deep energy, forming a red and blue shield outside his body and walked towards the corpse with Li Xuan.

"Well! I understand! Uncle Fu, have you found out the cause of their death?" Li Xuan nodded when he heard this. In order to prevent it, he also opened the defensive cover and took his wife Huang Mei'e and Fu Dahai to the corpse lying by the lake.

"The corpse I caught was filled with a satisfied smile on his face before his death, but it seemed as if he had seen something terrible in his eyes, with a hint of strange horror and fear. I have also checked all parts of his body, and there were no fatal wounds, not even the small wounds in the needle hole! Now I suspect that something was wrong with his soul!" Fu Dahai said to Li Xuan as he walked.

"There is something wrong with the soul? What's the problem?" Li Xuan looked at the corpse that was close to him, turned to Fu Dahai and asked, and carefully looked at the corpse at the same time.

"I can't be sure, but I think it should be that his soul was swallowed by some kind of evil thing!" Fu Dahai said after hearing this.

"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded and responded while looking at the corpse.

The corpse that Fu Dahai fished out of the artificial lake was a middle-aged male with ordinary appearance and mud. However, the death of the male corpse was extremely strange at this time. Except for what Fu Dahai said, with a satisfying and happy smile on his face, a terrifying and frightened expression appeared in his eyes, as if he saw something very terrifying at the moment before his death. This made Li Xuan half-squint his eyes and a musing expression on his face.

"When I was studying at Shenwu Academy a few years ago, I remember that in the north of the outer city, a rich man with the cultivation of Yangdan Martial Saint also dug out a fierce object while digging the ground to build a house, causing the rich man's family to die! The situation here is a bit similar to the rich man's back then!" Huang Mei'e, who was beside Li Xuan, was covered with two defensive covers. Looking at Li Xuan who was pondering, he couldn't help but speak.

"Then where did that fierce thing go? Do you know what it was?" Li Xuan looked at his wife and asked.

"I don't know! Later, this matter was taken over by the special envoy of Long Ting. I don't know what it is!" Huang Mei'e said after hearing this.

"I know this because I have also lived in Yunzhou City in recent years! And the rich man dug up a very old, blood-red small box that looks like a makeup box!" Fu Dahai nodded and responded when he heard this. After saying that, he showed a shocked expression and said, "After this small box was found and opened, there was only a dry broken finger inside!"

"A person killed by a dry little finger? Uncle Fu, are you not telling a story?" Li Xuan said with a surprised expression when he heard this.

"Yes! Uncle Fu, don't scare me! Mei'e is so timid!" Huang Mei'e got goosebumps when she heard this, and quickly hid behind Li Xuan and said.

"What story is it? I heard this from an old friend!" Fu Dahai shook his head when he heard this, and then continued, "The dry and broken finger that was taken out of the small box is my friend said it was still a woman's little finger. The reason why the rich man's family was killed was because the broken finger contained the peerless murderous intent and resentment of the broken finger! The rich man and his family died because they could not bear the peerless murderous intent and resentment!"
Chapter completed!