bookpower Chapter 68 - 65: Lure the snake out of its hole
Chapter 68 - 65: Lure the snake out of its hole
"Mother, our boat has been almost fully renovated. I plan to find a secluded courtyard in the county and we'll start living there. You don't have to worry about money. We just need to live our lives honestly."
Chen Yi shared his plan aboard their large boat. Chen Yi's mother now deferred all decisions to him. The boy of the family was now a martial artist, and even the little girl had already begun to enter the Mingjin stage. Chen Yi's mother herself was feeling stronger these days, her complexion had improved, her chronic back pain had disappeared. How could she not acknowledge that these were all due to Chen Yi's efforts?
"Yi, you make the decisions. Remember, don't get into conflicts with others when you're outside. Your safety is what matters the most, do you understand?"
"Don't worry, mother. I will remember!"
After arranging everything, Chen Yi boarded a passenger ship to go to the county town.
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Not long after Chen Yi left the Immortal Cultivation World, the Lin Family noticed something wrong.
Five charred bodies were scattered in an open space in the courtyard of the Lin Family mansion. Lin Ping, the Family Head, could barely recognize his son among the corpses.
Bang!!!
"You bunch of failures, how did my son die?!!"
"Drag everyone from the slums here. If there is any resistance, execute them on the spot!"
"Kill all those guests who were supposed to protect my second son! They are useless!"
"Mr. Mu, as Sea Bear was your disciple, you're most familiar with his capabilities. I want you to take full responsibility for this, find the murderer,
I want him chopped up into pieces!!!"
A strong middle-aged man bowed his hand, "Family Head, what if the Island Master asks?"
"Humph! Don't be afraid of him. My second uncle recently broke through to the advanced stage of Qi Cultivation. He's on par with that old fellow from the Island Master's side, but he's younger. The Island Master won't dare to mess with us. Just do what you need to do!"
"All right, Family Head, rest assured. With the clues from the slums, the killer can't escape!" Mr. Mu bowed again, and with a crowd of people, he blocked off the slums.
Soon, everyone from the slums was made to kneel in the courtyard.
"Where are Liu Zhu and Er Gou? What do they look like?"
"You say you saw them in the market? Someone followed Zhang Heng and his people, and then Zhang Heng never came back?"
"My second son went to find the fisherman behind Liu Zhu? Is he like this?"
"Does the middle-aged man who appeared at Liu Zhu's house this morning look like this? Good, that matches, it's him!"
Soon, Mr. Mu deduced the correct answer, but it ended there,
because by this time, Liu Zhu and his wife had already hidden in the endless fog, they had nowhere to start.
The fisherman behind Liu Zhu, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses from the market, was a middle-aged man with a hardened appearance. However, he was a mysterious figure,
Apart from these two areas, he had never appeared elsewhere!
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The wine of the Immortal Cultivation World was strong and was good for replenishing Vitality and Blood, but it lacked the depth of time's precipitation,
Just like martial arts practice in the Immortal Cultivation World, it pursued the enhancement of Vitality and Blood, and the physical strength while lacking in the depth of technique.
Maybe it was because that world had spiritual energy resources, so no one went into researching the technique,
And in this Martial World, perhaps, due to its "barrenness", every small layer of development has been researched to the extreme.
This was what Chen Yi had been feeling more and more recently. For instance, the talisman scroll that could let out fireballs, if developed by people in the Martial World,
They would definitely not waste energy like this. They might achieve the same effect with less energy consumption.
As Chen Yi was enjoying his wine and exquisite dishes, he was pondering the strengths and weaknesses of the two worlds,
And his own advantage was marrying the strengths of both worlds in himself, having both the depth and resources to develop his body and cultivate.
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Meanwhile, in the same street, in a large courtyard, Ma Qigang, as the gang leader, was leading his subordinates in some martial practice.
They were stripping to their waists, each chest and back muscle visible. They were flushed and either hitting each other or practicing force against wooden piles.
The main martial method practiced by Ma Zi Gang was the Iron Shirt Technique, also known as the Iron Shirt. This method, when mastered, is believed to result in a body rich in Vitality and Blood, far surpassing that of the Iron Wire Fist and the Iron Whip Leg.
Among the crowd, there was a teenager in his teens, also bare-chested, practicing the basic moves of the Iron Shirt Technique,
Upon closer inspection, the boy looked 70-80% similar to Chen Yi!
"Chen Qi, there's a job. Some fat sheep just left the gold shop and is now drinking at the Hakka Restaurant. He has at least three gold cakes on him. You take Wang Hu and Zhang Cheng to the restaurant. Be careful, the other party is likely also a Mingjin martial artist, otherwise, he wouldn't dare to brazenly carry gold around."