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Chapter 97: Chapter 97: Centennial Black Ginseng! Breakthrough to the Middle Stage!

Wan Yuan was mockingly pointed at the nose by the young girl, and aside from the initial unbearable anger, she later became as quiet as if she weren’t even there.

”Hehe, boring. You’re father’s woman, even if you’re the twenty-ninth, Guardian Zheng wouldn’t dare to look.”

The young girl sat back on the chair, gently swinging her pale feet, ”Uncle Qee, let’s discuss official business.”

”Yes, Young Master.”

”Guardian Zheng, Twenty-ninth Lady, the Criminal Defense Bureau of Baiyuan County has detected my presence. A middle-stage Strong Bone Realm Chiliarch from the Tiger Armor Army in Xirong County, along with an early-stage Strong Bone Realm Centurion and five hundred Tiger Armor soldiers, are on their way to Baiyuan County.”

Qi Huanrong emitted a cold voice devoid of any emotion under his icy mask.

Zheng Xiguan and Wan Yuan’s expressions changed drastically upon hearing this.

”I estimate they’ll arrive in two or three days,” Qi Huanrong continued, ”Young Master decides to leave Baiyuan County tomorrow night before the Tiger Armor Army arrives.”

The cold mask turned towards Zheng Xiguan: ”Guardian Zheng, as the Defense Chief of the City Defense Department in the Criminal Defense Bureau, please make arrangements for Young Master to leave the city.”

Zheng Xiguan immediately bowed: ”Elder Qee, Young Master, rest assured.”

Qi Huanrong looked at Wan Yuan again: ”Twenty-ninth Lady, the Sect Leader has ordered that Young Master Feng misses his mother, and you are commanded to leave the city with Young Master An Ying tomorrow night.”

”Yes.” Wan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

”Tch!” The young girl unhappily picked up a bloody organ and continued to gnaw on it.

An Ying is the young girl’s real name.

The young girl took several big bites of the organ, grumbling unhappily: ”Boring, Uncle Qee, when can I eat more delicious organs?”

”Young Master, before leaving tomorrow night, you’ll be able to eat organs nurtured by the Tiger and Python’s Qi,” Qi Huanrong said solemnly.

”Are there only two?” The young girl asked again.

Qi Huanrong nodded.

”Alright then,” the young girl wiped her mouth and giggled: ”Still hungry, Uncle Qee, let’s find some more delicious things to eat.”

”Yes, Young Master.”

Qi Huanrong left with the young girl, leaving only Wan Yuan and Zheng Xiguan in the attic.

”Guardian Zheng, what is Young Master An Ying thinking...”

”Hmm,” Zheng Xiguan said before Wan Yuan could finish: ”Otherwise, Young Master would leave tonight.”

Wan Yuan’s eyebrows showed shock as she wanted to ask a few more questions, but with the flow of her beautiful eyes, suddenly bowed and saluted: ”Guardian Zheng, I have a matter that needs help.”

”Lady, please speak.”

”Tonight, I need Guardian Zheng to arrange for some sect members to expose their identities.”

”Why is this?” Zheng Xiguan asked.

”That illegitimate son, if I don’t kill him, I won’t be able to eat or sleep,” Wan Yuan’s face looked grim: ”I hope Guardian Zheng can help me divert the Arresting Captain of the Criminal Defense Bureau who guards that illegitimate son...”

...

Zheng Xiguan left the Chu family and returned to the City Defense Department of the Criminal Defense Bureau.

He appeared no different from an ordinary person now, his face not pale anymore, looking even heroic.

But as he lowered his gaze to the table, a familiar wicked feeling flashed deep in his eyes.

On the table lay a cultivation technique named the Blood Python Technique.

He first picked it up, flipping through it from beginning to end, with a solemn expression appearing on his face.

”Indeed, it’s more advanced than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique, and easier to cultivate than the Blood Evil Body Refining Technique...”

The dimly lit room had only a bit of pearl light.

”But the timing of this technique’s appearance is too coincidental...”

Zheng Xiguan flicked through the Blood Python Technique several times, his face not only solemn but also hesitantly indecisive.

To those pursuing power, cultivation techniques are irresistible temptations, especially for someone like Zheng Xiguan, a member of the Blood Evil Sect, otherwise, he wouldn’t have cultivated Blood Evil Body Refining Technique.

”Who really likes to eat bloody organs...”

His cultivation of Blood Evil Body Refining Technique was because it accelerated cultivation and strengthened power just like consuming medicinal soup by devouring organs.

Moreover, the stronger the organ’s owner, like a martial artist, the better the effect, often several or even dozens of times better than medicinal soup.

Now a more advanced technique suddenly appeared that doesn’t require devouring organs and has a faster cultivation speed than the Blood Evil Body Refining Technique. Even if its appearance timing is off and its origin unclear, Zheng Xiguan is deeply tempted.

He has been stuck at eleven Qi and Blood for years, showing no signs of breaking through.

And this technique is easier to cultivate and is said to consolidate and strengthen Qi and Blood; how could he not be tempted.

After watching for a long time, Zheng Xiguan’s tense expression slowly relaxed, finally leaving only firmness.

Currently, this technique is spreading internally within the Criminal Defense Bureau. If he doesn’t practice it, others will, leading to the risk of being surpassed.

Although the technique is currently only circulating within the Bureau, it won’t be long before all of Baiyuan County, and even Xirong County will know about it.

He must practice it, others will have to practice it too.

Thinking so, he stood up and began practicing the technique.

Like Zheng Xiguan, similar scenes were happening throughout the Criminal Defense Bureau.

Even Luo Lin, the Senior Seventh-Grade Prison Chief, began practicing the technique.

...

West City, Chu Mansion, West Willow Garden.

”Young Master, the Blood Python Technique has already spread throughout the Criminal Defense Bureau. At most, in another day, those Blood Evil Sect members hiding in the dark will be exposed,” Fang Xiao said solemnly.

”Good, thank you, Housekeeper Fang,” Chu Ming sat on a stone stool, flipping through a book.

The technique’s entry-level requirements are very simple; martial artists who have practiced before can achieve it in a day or two.

”Young Master, Patriarch of the Chu Family, Chu Rong, and his wife Wan Yuan have been captured by the Criminal Defense Bureau,” Fang Xiao continued to report, ”Lin Zhenwu and Shao Pengshu deliberately made a round in the Chu family, I believe the Blood Evil Sect won’t be able to wait.”

Chu Ming lifted his gaze, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

He hadn’t expected Lin Zhenwu and Shao Pengshu to act so swiftly.

Seeing Chu Ming’s confusion, Fang Xiao smiled and said, ”Because reinforcements from Xirong County have arrived, the Blood Evil Sect will not escape.”

”Wasn’t it said will arrive in two or three days?” Chu Ming asked.

”Haha, the Tiger Armor Army will arrive in three days, intentionally leaked to the Blood Evil Sect; in reality...” Fang Xiao mused, ”Chiliarch and Centurion of the Tiger Armor Army have already arrived ahead.”

As if fearing Chu Ming was unaware of the specific strengths of Chiliarch and Centurion, Fang Xiao continued, ”Chiliarch Ling Hao, a middle-stage Strong Bone Realm expert refining the trunk bones, Centurion Ji Yong, an early-stage Strong Bone Realm expert with leg bones refined.”

”Chiliarch and Centurion, seasoned veterans, their strength surpasses that of ordinary martial artists!”

Middle-stage and early-stage Strong Bone Realm...

Chu Ming felt his Qi and Blood continually refining the bones of his limbs and trunk.

Is he considered early-stage or middle-stage?

After consuming the Black Ginseng yesterday, he condensed the thirteenth Qi and Blood power, breaking the Blood Circulation bottleneck, guiding Qi and Blood to refine the bones of his limbs and trunk.

But that was just the beginning; last night he condensed the fourteenth, and this morning, the fifteenth, completely exhausting the medicinal power of the Centennial Black Ginseng.

Having fifteen robust Qi and Blood, the total volume of Qi and Blood was comparable to over thirty typical martial artists, and the speed of bone refinement was astoundingly fast.

The hardness of his limb bones now matches the level of copper, with the main trunk being slightly inferior but not far off.

At this rate, the limb bones might reach the hardness of gold and iron today, and the trunk bones by tomorrow.

If Mountain and Sea Tiger and Python Fierce Blood Refining Scripture - Strong Bone can be perfected to comprehend the refining method of the neck bones, he could break through to the late-stage Strong Bone Realm.

Centennial Black Ginseng...