Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 346: Chapter 141: Entering the Grey Fog, Obtaining Treasures (10,000 Characters Requesting Subscription)

”Jiu Si!”

Doctor Bai’s eyes lit up at this moment, and he called out. Uncle Zhong immediately stepped forward and said, ”Shh, father, walls have ears!”

Doctor Bai quickly realized his mistake, and Uncle Zhong said, ”Father, you go ahead and talk, I’ll go...”

Mm-hmm!

Doctor Bai nodded. Wu Zhong silently approached the entrance of their family’s large courtyard. At that moment, Chen Jie stepped forward and grabbed Doctor Bai’s hand, saying, ”Master, are you well?”

Hearing the word ”master,” Doctor Bai almost burst into tears and said, ”Jiu Si, you’ve been wronged!”

Chen Jie replied, ”Master, no, where have I been wronged? Everything is quite alright.”

Doctor Bai said, ”Stop trying to comfort me. I’ve heard people say that you’ve been wrongfully accused of killing Peng Shizhong.”

”Isn’t that complete nonsense? My disciple Jiu Si is most righteous and loyal; how could he kill his own adoptive father? Child, stay here for the night. Tomorrow, I’ll go to the city and, though it may cost me my face, I will find the Gang Leader to declare your innocence and thoroughly investigate this matter to clear your name.”

Doctor Bai was very agitated.

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie immediately consoled him, ”Master, please don’t get involved in this matter. And don’t go into the city either. If the Gang Leader is involved in framing me, it would be like walking into a trap.”

”Ah, what, what...”

Doctor Bai’s eyes widened, as he had not expected the Gang Leader to be involved in this affair.

At this time, Wu Zhong returned, fortunately, the people guarding their gate were all quite far away.

He said, ”Jiu Si, what exactly is going on? Why would the Gang Leader want to frame you?”

Chen Jie thought for a moment and said, ”Master, Uncle Zhong, please do not interfere in this matter. Just wait quietly for a few days, and no matter what happens outside, don’t pay attention to it. Furthermore, whatever the guild asks you to do, just do it without resistance. I have everything planned out.”

”As for this matter, it is like this...”

Chen Jie slowly recounted the whole affair, including Peng Shizhong’s struggle with Nan Batian and Feng Xuan’s trap for him—he told them everything.

After listening, Doctor Bai said, ”So that’s how it is, another old story rears its head.”

Hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Doctor Bai, who continued, ”I know about their affair. The Old Guild Leader had three disciples: the eldest disciple Peng Shizhong, the second disciple Nan Batian, and the third disciple Xu Nianjiao.”

”When they were young, the three grew up together. I could tell that both men had affections for their younger sister disciple. Later, for some reason, Nan Batian broke the rules of the guild. The reason given for his punishment was that he apprenticed under an evil master and harmed the guild members, and he was sentenced to ’three blades, six holes’ punishment!”

”The night before the execution, Xu Nianjiao committed suicide. Then, on the day of execution considering the old times, the Old Guild Leader spared his heart with the final blade, allowing him to barely escape with his life...”

Doctor Bai was an elder of the Fishing Guild and thus knew a lot about Nan Batian’s past, which he now revealed.

”So it turns out, the one who reported Nan Batian for apprenticing under an evil master was Peng Shizhong, and Xu Nianjiao’s suicide also implicated her, thus Nan Batian held a grudge against Peng Shizhong, leading to today’s entanglement. Is that correct?”

Chen Jie responded, ”What Master says is very true.”

Bai Wenjing said, ”Jiu Si, based on what you say, it will be extremely difficult for you to overturn this case. I, as your master, can’t help you either. What are you going to do next?”

Chen Jie replied, ”Master, I’ve already made a plan. But before implementing it, I first need to elevate my strength.”

”I’m currently only at the Iron Bone Realm. To deal with the current situation, I must attain the Energy Transformation level. Thus, I’m preparing to refine the elixir for breaking through to Energy Transformation, the Spirit Transformation Pill!”

”Spirit Transformation Pill!”

Upon hearing this, Bai Wenjing exclaimed, ”Such treasure medicine is hard to come by! To refine it, you need a lot of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures!”

Chen Jie said, ”Master speaks very truly, but I have already gathered the thirty-six auxiliary medicines required to refine this medicine, and of the three main ingredients, I have already acquired two. Now, I only lack one, so I came to ask Uncle Zhong.”

”Ask me?”

Wu Zhong was taken aback, and Chen Jie said, ”Yes, Uncle Zhong, it’s like this: the last ingredient I need is a five-hundred-year-old Blood Ganoderma!”

”Blood Ganoderma!”

Hearing this, Wu Zhong looked at Chen Jie in surprise and said, ”Jiu Si, you aren’t thinking of entering the grey mist, are you?”

Chen Jie replied, ”Indeed, I want to ask Uncle Zhong if there’s any trace of this Blood Ganoderma within the grey mist.”

After hearing this, Wu Zhong frowned and said, ”Jiu Si, the grey mist is extremely dangerous, even skirting its edges briefly almost caused my demise; even the likes of Peng Shizhong, Gu Qingfeng, Zhang Liye, and the official from Huangzhou Prefecture, who were all Energy Transformation Masters, didn’t dare to venture deep into it. It’s perilous!”

Chen Jie responded, ”Uncle Zhong, I understand the danger, but I really need this ingredient right now. Just tell me if there might be any inside, that’s all.”

”There definitely are. That day when I picked a hundred-year-old Blood Ganoderma, I peered deeper in, and there seemed to be quite a few more Ganoderma, including those over five hundred years old.”

Chen Jie declared, ”That’s good, that’s all I needed to know.”

At that moment, Doctor Bai intervened, ”Jiu Si, don’t be rash. This grey mist is not something to enter lightly.”

Chen Jie reassured, ”Master, don’t worry. I’ll be well prepared before entering, and I am quite formidable now, even within the Iron Bone Realm I’m considered a skillful fighter.”

Hearing this, Doctor Bai expressed his relief, ”Mmm-mmm, I know, Ah Zhong came back and talked about it, how you challenged Golden Saber Feng San and established your might in one battle. The Mianshui People call you Fifth Master Chen, the ’Soul-chasing Spear,’ right?”