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Due to this incident, Yao Pei and Qi Xuansu stayed an extra day in the county town. Yao Pei personally went to the local Daoist temple and questioned the other members thoroughly.
These people had never encountered someone of Yao Pei’s stature before, and since they were interrogated separately, they quickly revealed the full truth.
Everything Long Leshan said was true. Over the years, Abbot Wu Yonggui had imprisoned several respectable women within the Daoist temple. Four were still alive, while two had mysteriously died and had been buried behind the temple.
Yao Pei met with the four surviving women, and as expected, they were all dressed as Daoist priestesses. She then ordered the two buried corpses to be exhumed. After examination, it was discovered that they had died from severe yin depletion. This proved that Abbot Wu Yonggui had not merely been lustful. He had been absorbing yin energy to replenish his own vitality.
From even the most basic moral standpoint, his death was well-deserved....
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