After that, what happened in Baiyun County was pretty much the same as what Chen Yi had experienced in the simulation.
Shen Qingshan contacted the families of the victims from the murder cases he had previously investigated, the ones who had been wrongfully accused of being the murderers.
One of them was willing to stop the Inspector in the street to plead their grievance and hand over that letter.
The others, after this person had pleaded their case, stepped forward from the crowd one after another to voice their own injustices.
"Magistrate Cao, with so many people crying out about injustice, you haven't been very diligent in your duties as magistrate."
Zhang Miao said the same thing as in the simulation.
That portly Magistrate Cao also reacted just as in the simulation, sweat pouring down his forehead, feeling his good days were coming to an end.
The quick-witted Feng Yucheng, also true to the simulation, decided to slip away and flee!
Chen Yi replicated the actions from the simulation, and the plan proceeded very smoothly.
However, in the simulation, Feng Yucheng's escape had been successful.
He not only ran away himself.
He also notified that group of demon tribesmen in Baiyun Ridge, and they all ran away together.
Because he couldn't bear to part with the Blood Demon Pills and wanted to continue taking these sinister pills, he naturally had to keep this group of demons close at hand.
But this time, this escape route of his was going to fail.
Feng Yucheng slipped away with utter decisiveness.
He didn't even go home, didn't take anything with him, just left the city directly and rushed into the mountain forests.
When he saw the trust on Zhang Miao's face as he faced those commoners who had stepped forward to plead their grievances.
And that unknown peasant woman in her hands, holding the so-called letter detailing the hiding places of all the demon tribesmen in Baiyun Ridge.
Feng Yucheng made a swift judgment.
The matter had been exposed, he had to escape immediately!
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
Feng Yucheng ran through the mountain forest like a wild beast, cutting down any tree in his way, slashing through any grass, as if a pack of vicious wolves were chasing him.
"That damned fat pig, Cao!
I told him long ago, if you're going to frame someone in a case, you have to sentence all the family members and relatives of the accused too!
If you can't exile or execute them, at least lock them up in prison until they die!
Such womanly soft-heartedness!!"
Feng Yucheng raged against his teammate as he fled.
Not long after, he entered Baiyun Ridge and found the place where Tiger Boss and the other demons had previously held their meeting.
"Tiger Boss! Stop hiding in that broken cave! Everything's been exposed! Hurry up and come with me! I'll take you to..."
The moment he entered the cave, Feng Yucheng stood frozen in shock.
The ground was covered with the dismembered corpses of demons, blood had dyed the cave red, and the stench of blood filled the air.
Actually, he had smelled the blood from far away.
But he thought it was just the demons eating people, so he didn't pay it any mind.
If he had sensed the abnormality, the outcome might have been different.
This was also the only chance Feng Yucheng had this time to leave alive. Unfortunately, his inherently cold and ruthless nature ultimately cost him his life.
Feng Yucheng was still decisive. Without the slightest hesitation, he withdrew from the cave and immediately turned to run.
"Shattering Star Ripple Finger!"
Chen Yi, who had long been lying in ambush here, didn't waste a single word. Standing on a large tree, he aimed at Feng Yucheng and fired a finger strike, sending him on his final journey.
"Urk... you, you, who are you..."
Feng Yucheng clutched his pierced stomach, kneeling on the ground and spitting blood as he looked in the direction the attack had come from.
A slight smile curled at the corner of Chen Yi's mouth. He refused to converse with him and fired five consecutive finger strikes!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!!"
Feng Yucheng's body was shredded into dust.
Chen Yi released the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and raised his hand to summon Feng Yucheng's soul.
"Who the hell are you!! What grudge do you have against me!! Why are you harming me???"
Feng Yucheng's ghostly face appeared on the banner's surface, still questioning.
Chen Yi gave him a sidelong glance.
"What grudge did the people of Baiyun County have against you, and why did you harm them?"
"What are you pretending for!! In these times, who acts for the people!! You evil cultivator, aren't you just killing people to refine souls?!"
"You're right, I'm not acting for the people. I'm avenging myself. We actually do have quite a few grudges. You deserve this."
"What grudges?! I don't even know you!!"
How could Feng Yucheng know.
The grudges Chen Yi spoke of were from the two times he had been killed by Feng Yucheng in the simulations.
This grudge was too abstract; even if Chen Yi told him, Feng Yucheng wouldn't understand.
"Ten Thousand Souls Banner, refine him... Huh?"
Chen Yi was just about to instantly refine this guy, making this scourge's soul scatter completely, when he suddenly noticed.
Amidst Feng Yucheng's pile of mush-like corpse, there was a black bead.
Chen Yi drew his Flame Iron Heavy Sword, poked around in that disgusting pile, and flicked the bead out.
He tried attacking it with a Shattering Star Ripple Finger.
The bead was actually completely unharmed.
"So sturdy?"
Chen Yi, at the Golden Body Realm, had unleashed an Earth-Grade martial art at the Minor Achievement realm, and it was the Shattering Star Ripple Finger with its destructive force concentrated on a single point.
And it couldn't break it?
This was definitely no ordinary object!
"I say, Chief Commissioner Feng, what's going on with you? Are you a Golden Core stage powerhouse, or do you carry a Sariras? What is this thing?"
Feng Yucheng's soul was thrashing left and right within the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, trying to escape.
Although this guy was evil, it must be said, he truly refused to submit to fate.
Even at a time like this, he was still struggling.
"Hmph! Don't expect me to tell you anything! Despicable villain, only knows how to ambush!"
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner took action on its own.
"Bro, why waste words with him? Watch me, Ten Thousand Ghosts' Wail!!"
Inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the demon souls that had been absorbed suddenly felt immense pain and began wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves.
The sound was extremely unpleasant, enough to make a living person want to smash their head against a wall.
Feng Yucheng was subjected to the demonic sound filling his ears, playing in a three-dimensional loop, doubling the pain.
Chen Yi signaled the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to pause, not to break him.
"It's not that I'm despicable, but dealing with you requires caution. Who knows if you might suddenly transform?"
Chen Yi could see that the ghostly face on the banner's surface showed a change in emotion, seemingly surprised that he had mentioned "transformation."
However, in fact, when he had attacked Feng Yucheng earlier, the "Alien's Biological Father" trait had not activated.
This indicated that at this point in time, Feng Yucheng had not yet mastered that transformation ability from the last simulation. He was still human.
"That thing is called a 'Demon Seed'. All my life, I've resorted to any means to become stronger, all to get rid of it!"
Feng Yucheng was out of options.
He was already dead, and now his soul was being tortured. It was just too humiliating.
Might as well tell Chen Yi something he wanted to know, satisfy him, so he'd stop the torture.
"Oh... then you should thank me. See, I've helped you get rid of it now."
"I'm already dead! What's the use of getting rid of it!"
Chen Yi's words were truly a dark joke.
"What is a 'Demon Seed', and why did you want to get rid of it? Tell the truth, okay? You're inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner now. If you lie, the Artifact Spirit will detect it, and the consequences will be severe."
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner chimed in.
"No seat!"
Feng Yucheng looked at the fierce and menacing Artifact Spirit beside him and felt like dying.
Forgot, he was already dead!
"This 'Demon Seed' has been hidden inside my body since I was born. I don't know how it got there.
But I know, from the time I can remember, every full moon night, it would forcibly control my body, using common things like mud, branches, stones to draw a strange, inexplicable pattern on the ground.
Then, it would control me to stand inside this pattern and speak to the sky..."
"Say what?"
"Anchor point is in position!"

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