Chapter 107: Investigating News (Part 2)

  Xiao Ziyang slipped into the bedroom of that military officer with ease, and found him sleeping soundly with a woman who had a few touches of beauty.

  Xiao Ziyang snapped his fingers, and a strong gust of wind struck the woman's sleep acupoint. Then he lightly stabbed the martial officer's brow with his divine thought.

  The military officer was having a beautiful dream, but a severe headache woke him up. He opened his eyes dazedly and was startled by the figure in front of him, then he saw a pair of eyes emitting a faint blue glow.

  Half an hour later, Xiao Ziyang flew out of the martial officer's courtyard; he jumped onto the rooftop and didn't leave immediately. Instead, he crouched on the roof with a gloomy expression, thinking about something.

  Just now, he got a surprising message from the mouth of that Wu Guan, and the entire Weiguo Gong Mansion was indeed imprisoned in the Grand Temple Prison. In order to guard Weiguo Gong, the court dispatched more than ten masters from the Imperial Supply Institute to keep watch.

  All this is normal. Wei Guogong has been the Grand Commandant of the dynasty for over thirty years, and his disciples and former officials are all over the country; who can guarantee that no one will rescue someone from prison?

  But among these masters of the temple, there was one person who had caught Xiao Ziyang's attention.

  According to the officer's description, this time the Temple of Offerings sent a total of 14 masters, including 10 fourth-grade offerings, 2 third-grade offerings, and 1 second-grade offering.

  This is absolutely a very powerful force.

  The Western Cool Supply Temple gathered many experts. There was one first-class supply for one person, who was the master of the temple. Four second-class supplies were hung with the position of deputy master.

  Below that, there are three ranks serving over 30 people, and the fourth rank serves several hundred people. Those below the fourth rank do not have the qualifications to enter the capital's worship institute and can only serve in the worship halls of various states.

  The Xi Liangguo Temple is a first-class government office. The master of the temple is a high-ranking official of the imperial court, and the deputy master is a senior official of the second rank. Among the three ranks of supply officials, each has an official position of positive third rank and negative third rank; The Supply Temple has always only listened to the emperor's orders and has some espionage functions, with a very superior status in the imperial court.

  The offerings are divided into nine grades, corresponding to:

  Grade 1 offering for top master level experts

  Grade 2 offering for top-notch high-level experts

  Grade 3 offering for the best among first-rate high-level experts

  Grade 4 offering for ordinary first-rate high-level experts

  Grade 5 offering for the best among second-rate high-level experts

  Grade 6 offering for ordinary second-rate high-level experts

  Grade 7 offering for overall good third-rate high-level experts

  Grade 8 offering for ordinary third-rate high-level experts

  Grade 9 offering is set for new blood cultivated by the Offering Hall itself, known as quasi-offering.

  That is to say, among the top-notch martial artists in the Supply Temple, there is a deputy head of the Supply Temple with unparalleled martial arts skills and twelve first-rate high-ranking officials.

  But these thirteen people were not in Xiao Ziyang's eyes.

  What made Xiao Ziyang suspicious was the fourteenth person sent by Gongfangyuan. This man was a Taoist priest, and the military officer did not know what rank of Gongfang this man held, only that other Gongfang called him Daozhang Sining.

  The key is that the attitudes of these Taoist priests towards this Taoist are too strange. Those one by one who looked down on him, even including the deputy head of the temple, were really too respectful in their attitude towards that Taoist priest.

  Whoever it is, as long as they meet that Taoist priest, they will definitely stand by the side of the road, bow their heads and pay respects, respectfully calling out "Fourth Ning Dao Zhang".

  To know, the deputy master of the temple is a second-class official in the imperial court; even if he saw Su Xiangye, who was respected by millions, he wouldn't be so respectful. Who else in this world, besides the emperor, could make this second-class official so respectful?

  The problem that had been puzzling the military officer for a long time, as soon as it was heard by Xiao Ziyang, a word immediately emerged from his mind - "Cultivator!"

  Xiao Ziyang, who had been thinking on the roof for half a day and still couldn't come up with a good plan, suddenly gritted his teeth, slapped the roof with his palm, and turned into a wisp of smoke that disappeared into the night sky.

  Xiao Ziyang originally wanted to use that military officer to pass on a message to Wei Guogong in prison, and if possible, use this person to lure some key figures into being controlled by the Soul-Confusing Technique, thinking of ways to rescue several important people from the Wei Guogong manor.

  But now, since there are monks stationed in the temple, he dare not be presumptuous.

  Xiao Ziyang secretly returned to the courtyard where he lived in the Rolling Moon Building, tossing and turning, unable to sleep all night.

  The next day, he sat down again at the table by the window on the second floor of the Moon Embracing Building, gazing out and observing the Su Manor while thinking about a countermeasure.

  He suddenly focused his gaze, his eyes fixed on the other side of the imperial road, next to the Auxiliary National Duke's mansion, a luxurious and magnificent mansion that was not inferior to it, with a puzzled expression on his face.

  That mansion is the Weiguo Gong Fu.

  Just now, his gaze inadvertently swept over the Weiguo Gongfu across the imperial road that was sealed by the Imperial Censor, and he actually discovered that there were also three spiritual lights bursting out of the Weiguo Gongfu.

  ……

  Under the night sky in Weiguo Gongfu, Xiao Ziyang crouched on a lush branch of a big tree, observing a delicate and elegant two-story small building not far away.

  There is light shining out from the windows of the small building.

  This small building is located in a secluded garden, surrounded by trees and artificial hills. Xiao Ziyang had not seen this small building with lights on when he was in the Lan Yue Lou earlier, but only discovered its existence when he sneaked into the Weiguo Gong Fu to investigate.

  In Xiao Ziyang's eyes, which had just employed the "Wandering Air Technique", there were three cultivators in the small building. Two of them were upstairs and one was downstairs. Among the two upstairs, one had a disordered and chaotic aura; another had a weak aura, only slightly stronger than Xiao Ziyang at this moment. The person downstairs had a ghastly white aura outside his body, like flames from hell, churning restlessly, much stronger than Xiao Ziyang, seemingly at least a master of the seventh layer of Qi Refining or above.

  Xiao Ziyang's invisible escape method can deceive the spiritual eye of a cultivator two realms higher than himself, but with his current cultivation at only the third layer of Qi Refining, he will definitely not be able to deceive the spiritual eye of that expert downstairs.

  Although that person may not be able to cast the Spiritual Eye Technique all the time, Invisible Escape is not a flying technique. To get close to the small building, one can only rely on lightness skills. At this moment, Xiao Ziyang's lightness skills are unparalleled, and his movements are silent and soundless, but this is only relative to ordinary martial artists.

  Even if Xiao Ziyang's lightness skill was pushed to the extreme, the sound of his movements couldn't be hidden from his own ears; let alone the cultivator downstairs who was at least in the seventh layer of Qi Refining and Bone Tempering stage. The three stages of Qi Refining, Bone Tempering, and Marrow Washing were the stages where a cultivator strengthened their physical body, naturally enhancing their five senses as well. If Xiao Ziyang dared to use his lightness skill to approach the small building, he would definitely not be able to deceive that person.

  He can only wait.

  The invisible escape method is quite costly in terms of magic power, but the maintenance after activation consumes very little magic power. With his current magic power, even if he maintains the invisible escape method and hides for three days and three nights, he won't have to worry about running out of magic power.

  The Lingyan technique in ordinary five-line magic is far inferior to the Wangqi technique recorded in "Zi Yu Sheng Yan".

  Lingyan technique can also view the external spirit light of a cultivator, but the viewing range is much smaller than that of Wangqi technique, only within 100 zhang around the body.

  The invisible escape method has an extraordinary effect on the spiritual light of the cultivators who practice concealment and hiding; therefore, as long as Xiao Ziyang does not approach within thirty feet of that sixth-level Qi-refining cultivator, he absolutely doesn't have to worry about being discovered.

  He was hiding at least forty yards away from that small building, just out of the range of that person's spiritual eyes.