After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 257 Burned

He glanced at the emotionally unstable Jiang Liqian, pondered in his heart, and told his plan: "According to the words of the two rescued children, the evil spirit who abducted the children should be hiding in Shuiwan Mountain, 20 miles north of Shuiwan City. There is a possibility that there are traces of the previously abducted children in a cave there. Moreover, this evil spirit is very good at spinning silk and cocoon-making magic. It is probably a female demon, and its prototype is mostly spiders or silkworms.

"Shuiwan Mountain is enormous, and there are many monsters within. I'm afraid we'll need to arrange a large number of people to search the mountain, but conflicts with other monsters are inevitable. I wonder if you are willing to each lead a group of palace soldiers to search the mountain?"

Everyone thought about it and felt that this method was the safest, and they all agreed. However, Su Yanqing raised an objection: "My Lord City Lord, you also said that Shuiwan Mountain is very large. Even if all the troops in the mansion were sent out to search the mountain, it might not be possible to reduce the entire Shuiwan Mountain in ten days or half a month.

"Besides, mobilizing so many troops like this might alert the enemy. By then, the demon will have to hide with the kidnapped child and we might not be able to catch him for a year or two. As Fellow Daoist Jiang said, the Heart-Crushing Grass is only effective against extremely evil monsters. After a year or two, all his schemes will be almost complete. How can we stop him?"

Upon hearing this, City Lord Zhao looked embarrassed and sighed.

It's not that he couldn't think of this, but there was no better way now. The water-leading method could have easily found the evil spirit's lair, but for some reason the evil spirit threw the two children into a dilapidated Taoist temple and disappeared without a trace.

After the two children woke up, they provided limited clues. This is all they know at the moment. Apart from searching the mountain, which is a time-consuming and laborious task, is there any other way to catch the evil spirit?

Su Yanqing poked Jiang Liqian's arm, who had a grim expression on her face, and leaned close to her ear to ask, "Do you have any method of tracking the enemy by relying on the residual aura? Do you have a similar formation?"

Jiang Liqian pursed her lips tightly, her eyes swept across the Chuxincao on the table, and her throat rolled up and down, with a fishy and sweet taste.

She walked to the center of the hall, pondered for a long time, and then said in a voice that everyone could hear: "Yes, as long as the aura left by the evil spirit is strong enough, I can use the soul-calling formation to find its location. However, the soul-calling formation is a high-level formation. I can't complete it alone. It requires the right time, place, and people."

"Really?" City Lord Zhao stood up excitedly when he heard she had a solution. "Okay, okay, no matter what you need, as long as this City Lord can give it, I will definitely not be stingy."

Jiang Liqian glanced at everyone present, then lowered her eyes and said, "We need moonlight. We still need to set up the formation in Shuiyue Tower. Also, we need enough spirit stones, preferably high-grade ones. I also need Tuantuan and Yuanyuan to cooperate with me..."

City Lord Zhao agreed without hesitation.

Jiang Liqian paused, her tone suddenly becoming more serious: "One last thing is needed, the formation guide."

"What formation?"

"After finding the demon, the demon's heart."

When City Lord Zhao heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and agreed without thinking.

"Without further delay, let's set up the formation tonight, shall we?"

Jiang Li nodded slightly.

Yun Ruyi sat aside, looking at Jiang Liqian with a hesitant look, while Su Yanqing smiled and winked at Jiang Liqian, then pulled her out, saying that they wanted to see the beautiful scenery of Shuiwan City.

Yun Ruyi bit her lower lip, stood up and wanted to go with them, but Su Yanqing walked so fast that before she could say anything, their figures had disappeared at the door.

She lowered her eyes in disappointment, letting the hairband on top of her head flutter down, covering her gentle and watery eyes.

"Senior Sister Yun, why don't we go for a walk around Shuiwan City? We can check out the terrain here. If any evil spirits sneak into the city, it will be easy to catch them." A younger sister approached her and suggested.

Yun Ruyi shook her head and said weakly, "You guys go ahead. I... I still have something to do..."

The junior sister didn't know what was wrong with her, but she could feel that she didn't have much energy. She didn't force her, nodded, and left with the other disciples.

In the huge hall, she was the only one left, sitting in an empty corner. There was no wind or rain, and it was completely silent.

After Jiang Liqian was pulled out by Su Yanqing, she didn't do anything. She just wandered around all the alleys and waterways in Shuiwan City. On the way, he generously treated her to a bowl of noodles. Of course, the spirit stones were paid by Jiang Liqian.

In the evening, the two came to the Full Moon Well. Looking down from above, their figures were reflected in the deep well water.

"Oh, I heard that the well water here can reflect the color of the full moon at any time. Do you think it's true or false?" Su Yanqing asked.

Jiang Liqian looked at her reflection in the water and felt inexplicably dizzy, as if something was passing through the well water, trying to suck her down.

She frowned fiercely and subconsciously took a step back, but the pulling sensation not only did not ease, but became even stronger. The Jianmu ring on her left middle finger actually felt slightly hot, like boiling water, roiling and steaming in her blood, wanting to burst out.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang?"

"Jiang Liqian?"

Jiang Liqian suddenly came back to his senses, his face turned pale, but he quickly calmed down.

"It's getting late, let's go to Shuiyue Tower."

Su Yanqing thought she was a little strange and hesitated to speak. Jiang Liqian saw him like this and didn't care.

After all, she herself didn't know what was wrong with her.

The two of them came to Shuiyue Tower in the afterglow of sunset. However, what was unexpected was that the towering Shuiyue Tower turned into a sea of ​​fire at this moment.

In the billowing flames, the wooden beams fell down with a crackling sound, and from time to time there were "bang bang" sounds, which scared the surrounding birds away.

"This...what's going on?" Su Yanqing stared blankly at everything in front of him, his eyes wide open in shock.

Jiang Liqian was also surprised and immediately asked someone.

The guard who was suddenly grabbed by her showed an anxious look, obviously anxious to put out the fire, but had to be patient because of Jiang Liqian's identity as a disciple of Qiankun Sect and listen to her questions about the fire.

"We don't know what happened. Shuiyue Tower suddenly caught fire in the evening, and no matter how much water we poured on it, it wouldn't go out!"

Jiang Liqian frowned deeply, his expression solemn: "Where is your city lord? Isn't he coming to put out the fire?"

"The city lord suddenly had something to do and went out of the city. I don't know if he has returned yet."

"How could this happen!" Su Yanqing was shocked and pulled Jiang Liqian away, "Let's go find the city lord."

Just as the two men turned and took a step forward, the guard they had randomly grabbed suddenly asked hesitantly, "Um... Immortal Master, Shuiyue Tower has burned down. Can we still set up the Soul Summoning Formation?"