Yunxi satisfiedly put away the Soul-Collecting Mirror. Looking at the Evil Soul rampaging within it, she flicked in a thread of Soul Power and isolated it separately. She would search its soul after returning. She wanted to see exactly what scheme the evil cultivators had devised against her this time.
Watching Yunxi's string of actions, Cen Sen only felt that she was excessively decisive and efficient. Only after both bodies the evil cultivator had borrowed had turned to ash did Yunxi withdraw her domain.
When the two reappeared before everyone, the two Deputies who had been anxiously waiting at the side immediately went forward to meet them.
Yunxi said to Cen Sen:
"The corpse has been recovered. I'll leave the remaining matters to Captain Cen's investigation. This Venerable will take her leave first."
With that, she left cleanly and decisively.
Cen Sen wanted to keep her, but lacked the ability to do so. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as Ranxi vanished before his eyes.
The two Deputies immediately stepped forward and asked:
"Captain, what happened?"
Cen Sen briefly explained the process of recovering Mu Zijun's corpse, then instructed:
"I'll go to the City Lord's Mansion to report this matter. Do not open the city gates for now. Immediately investigate the whereabouts of that middle-aged male cultivator and see whom he has contacted. Bring anyone suspicious back to the City Guard Station first.
"Most importantly, investigate everyone in the City Guard Station who came into contact with Mu Zijun's corpse. There must be an evil cultivator's accomplice among them. Otherwise, no one could have taken the corpse away right beneath our noses!"
Cen Sen practically ground his teeth as he spoke the final sentence. This was simply throwing the City Guard Station's dignity to the ground and trampling