North of the Pacification Office stood a prison reserved for holding criminals.
It also had a dungeon level, which was exceedingly gloomy and cold.
The July weather was too hot, so the bodies of Zhang Banshan and Zhang Yunfeng had both been placed in the dungeon.
Zhihe, abbot of the lower monastery, and the monk Xinjue, abbot of Golden Leaf Temple, could only go down into the dungeon to examine the bodies.
Many candles had been lit in the dungeon, filling it with smoke.
The two bodies lay on simple wooden beds. Though they had been dead for some time, their bodies still gave off a sinister chill.
Their clothes had all been removed and set aside, clearly exposing the injuries on both bodies.
Zhang Yunfeng had a huge blue-black handprint in the middle of her back, while Zhang Banshan had two huge blue-black handprints on his chest.
The handprints bulged high, their very appearance carrying a sinister ghostly presence.
The burly monk Xinjue frowned as he examined them for a while. He reached out and pressed lightly on Zhang Banshan's chest, which caved in deeply beneath his fingertips.
He withdrew his hand and looked at Zhihe beside him. "What do you think, Master?"
Xinjue had met this newly arrived abbot of the lower monastery once. He felt that although Zhihe seemed mild, he had a very earnest, rigorous disposition, making him far more troublesome than Zhiyuan, who liked to smooth things over.
Zhihe said directly, "I believe this is the Heavenly Ghost Sect's Mystic Yin Ghost Claw. It uses ghosts to corrode the internal organs and suck out the essence blood. The organs inside should have rotted to mush..."
Xinjue nodded. "A sinister ghostly presence, and all the essence blood drained away. The attacker must have been an expert