Don't say people don't know (Part 2)

  Liu Zhi shook his head and said, "I have never practiced the Five Ghosts' magic. However, my grandfather had a book called 'Five Ghosts Yin Soldier Technique' in his collection. I don't know where he got it from. After my grandfather passed away, our house was burglarized, and I caught the thief, who was wearing black clothes and a hat. The stolen item was that very book. The thief was also a skilled martial artist. During the fight, the thief's hat fell off, revealing a monk. In the process of fighting over the book, I tore off part of it from the back, while the front part was taken away by the thief. Although I knew he was a monk because his face was covered, I couldn't tell who he was. The thief escaped in a hurry. Now that you mention it, I recall that the person's figure seemed familiar, similar to that of Monk Neng Jing."

  Liu Zhi Zhi said this, and the two of them understood. It seemed that Nian could somehow sense that the Liu family had this book, so he went to steal it. If he succeeded, who knows, maybe he could cultivate the Five Ghosts Yin Soldier Technique.

  "I've read that book, it's about refining the five ghosts, but it's really hard to do in modern times. You have to dig up graves and take the skulls of people from the five directions. If he can really purify them, where did he find those five skulls?" Liu Zhi couldn't help but wonder.

  "After investigation, the special department found that Shencheng Medical College lost several skulls after autopsy, and it is believed that they were stolen by Neng Jing to practice evil rituals." Lai Jixue said this, and Liu Zhizhi finally understood how Neng Jing had cultivated the Five Ghosts Technique.

  "Brother Liu, since this matter concerns you, you can't help but take action!" Lai Jixue said.

  "Being able to escape is a good skill, that night I fought with him, his moves were not inferior to mine, but he was guilty and panicked, so he fled hastily. I didn't have the confidence to capture him." Liu Zhi said with a slight frown.

  "No matter what, this matter still requires my intervention. If it can be resolved cleanly, then it will also have something to do with me!" Lai Jixue said.

  "What does it have to do with me?" Liu Zhi knew was somewhat puzzled, he didn't seem to have any connection with Neng Jing and the others.

  Jian Liu was very surprised, and Lai Jixue didn't keep it a secret either: "Do you still remember the car accident that almost happened before Spring Festival?"

  "Are you saying that has something to do with Neng Jing? Not quite, I know who's behind the scenes, Neng Jing at most has some connection with Huang Weiguo, it can't be him?" Liu Zhi knew very firmly ruled out Neng Jing's involvement in this matter.

  "You also found out that the mastermind behind this incident was not just a backstage manipulator, but the police sent the two suspects to the hospital for emergency treatment, and that night they were silenced. Lai Jixue revealed the inside story, but Liu Zhi didn't expect those two people to end up like that."

  "Could it be that he was able to silence him by killing him?" Yu Zhi finally understood a bit.

  "It should be him, and it's driving the yin soul to silence, can be clean as if done cleanly, people won't know, but unexpectedly this case was taken over by a special department, finally locked on Neng Jing's body, thinking it was him who did it, and conducted an investigation for more than half a year, collecting evidence almost done, using the method of ordinary people to deal with him, the country will not let go, Bing came to find me for help, I thought of my younger brother." Lai Jixue said about Bing, his tone changed slightly, Liu Zhi didn't notice, Song Qi walked the path of Qimen escape, and facial recognition is also a type of it, Song Qi naturally refined his eyes like a torch, and suddenly understood a bit.

  "Lai Lao Di, who is Yan Bing? Do you like her?" Song Qi's mouth corner revealed a smile as she said this.

  Liu Zhi knew was taken aback at first, and then he would come to his senses. Before Lai Ji Xue could speak, he hurriedly said with a hint of teasing: "Yan Bing is a beautiful woman from the Special Department, she should be an ability user. I've seen her control objects with her mind and manipulate temperature. Brother Lai, you're quite bold to take on this challenge. As for me, just seeing people from the Special Department gives me a headache!"

  "We're not ordinary people either, finding an ordinary person to be a wife is somewhat unfulfilling. I'm Lai Ge, a young man with ideals and ambitions!" Lai Jixue was teased by Liu Zhi, immediately appearing somewhat playful and irreverent, Song Qi also laughed.

  "Song, why don't you come and help out too, and see the Five Ghosts Technique for yourself!" Lai Jixue said to Song Qi with a turned face.

  "Lai Lao Di has put in a lot of effort for the sake of beauty, but I'm not good at it. What I've learned is not suitable for fighting, calculating fate and arranging formations are still okay, but you guys take the martial path, while I take the literary path!" Song Qi laughed and declined.

  "When will the special department take action?" asked Liu Zhi.

  "In a few days, I won't be in Shencheng for these two days. I'll go to Jinling Qixia Mountain Buddhist Academy to give lectures. I'll be back in a week," said Lai Jixue.

  The next day, Liu Zhi brought the Peach Wood Sword to the Qian Chun Tea House after lunch. In fact, the Peach Wood Sword had been with him since yesterday. He had gone through a thunder tribulation at Ma Jia Village Primary School and obtained the corpse of the demon beast Tree Mouse that failed to survive the tribulation. After taking its skin, he refined a storage bag, which was only the size of a palm on the outside, but had a space of nine cubic meters inside, just like the one he gave to Ali. Currently, his magical powers could only create a space of this size. His magic tools, Sharp Miao Knife, Ling Xū Stab, and the Luopan, as well as the Peach Wood Sword and some other things, were all placed inside, tied at his waist, hidden by his outer clothes. Others wouldn't notice it even if they saw it, thinking it was just a small cloth pouch for holding mobile phones.

  Liu Zhi didn't hear Lai Ji Xue, Song Qi or anyone else mention the storage bag, nor did he want to draw attention to himself. So yesterday, he just said that he had left his peach wood sword at home and today wrapped it in a newspaper and brought it to the Chao Chun tea house.

  Song Qi and Lai Jixue were already inside, Song Qi was admiring the Miao knife, praising it. His technique was different from Lai Jixue's, one hand grasping the knife, the other calming his mind and spirit, drawing a virtual symbol, striking the knife, the knife let out a clear ring, white spiritual light emerged, a dark green python shadow swam out, wandering around the room, seemingly alive, more agile than what Lai Jixue had shown before.

  When Liu Zhi came in, the python shadow had just returned to the Miao Dao. The two saw Liu Zhi come in and put down their knives, their eyes falling on the thing under Liu Zhi's arm. Liu Zhi placed it on the table, opened the newspaper, and a wooden hilt with purple-red color appeared, with cinnabar-drawn talismans deeply printed on the wood, the whole sword shining brightly, giving off an air of mystery.

  The two men's eyes locked in an instant, Lai Jixue's eyes narrowed, his pupils gleaming like needles as he stared at Taomu Sword. Liu Zhizhi had seen him look like this before, it was the same way he looked when examining a Miao Dao, and knew that he was using his "look at the air" technique; while Song Qi on the other hand showed a different expression, his eyes suddenly closed, his eyelids moving as his eyeballs rotated, then opened again. Liu Zhizhi noticed that his eyes had a fleeting watery sheen, very eerie, and knew it must be some kind of secret skill, with a similar yet distinct effect to Lai Jixue's method.

  "Little brother, I have to admire your luck. This is also a kind of treasure, although it can't compare with the Miao knife, but it's much better than the Feng Shui treasures in my store. You only spent a few hundred yuan and got such a great deal!" Lai Jixue's tone was full of envy.

  "Not bad, a very good ritual instrument. Although it's not as good as the Miao Dao, it's still an excellent tool for driving out evil spirits and calming ghosts. The peach wood itself is at least several decades old and is wild-grown, with a strong yang energy. With the cinnabar talismans infused into the wood, this is a high-quality item that has been used by masters for a long time. How could that Taoist possibly sell it? Perhaps modern people don't believe in these things, there's no market for them, and he's having a tough time making ends meet. Who would have thought that someone with real skills would end up selling his livelihood, just like Qin Qiong selling his horse back in the day? Alas!" Song Qi let out a long sigh.

  Liu Zhi couldn't help but laugh to himself, thinking that Li Yi had not sold the Peachwood Sword, but rather had killed him and taken it as his own spoils of war. His face remained expressionless as he asked, "How much is this thing worth, Masters?"

  "Do you want to sell it?" Lai Jixue immediately chimed in, his tone full of surprise, and Song Qi was also greatly surprised.

  "I'm a martial artist, and although I've met people like you who are out of the ordinary, this thing is completely useless to me!" Liu Zhi said with disdain.

  The two immediately understood that they were cultivators and had unconsciously looked at Liu Zhi with the eyes of a cultivator. To them, Liu Zhi was just a martial artist, which was how they saw him in their eyes.

  "Little brother, sell me this peach wood sword!" Lai Jixue said.

  "Lai younger brother, you already have a fine sword, better than the peach wood sword, why don't you give it to me? I don't have any good stuff!" Song Qi said.

  Lai Jixue smiled wryly and said, "Alright then, but Brother Liu, don't forget about me if you get anything good in the future. Last time I went to Miaojiang, I didn't gain any benefits for myself, but Brother Liu taught there for a year and got two magical instruments. Now I'm thinking of going there to teach too! Brother Song, you can't let Brother Liu suffer a loss!"

  "Don't worry, I still have two small coins. The Miao Dao was auctioned off for three million last time, this sword is not as good as the Miao Dao, how about thirty thousand?" Song Qi said.

  Lai Jixue nodded, but Liu Zhizhi shook his head and said: "This is too much, I only spent a few hundred yuan to buy it."

  "Brother, let's settle the bill later. I'm not short of money, in fact, I've made a profit. Liu, give me your account number and I'll have our accountant transfer the money over later." Song Qi said, then asked the waiter to call the accountant.

  Liu Zhi told the accountant about the account, and the accountant went to transfer the money. The three of them chatted freely, talking about Miaojiang. Lai Jixue mentioned the matter of Zhu Guo in the mountain valley last time. Song Qi sighed after hearing it: "The government has already intervened, otherwise that would be a good place. If Zhu Guo cooperates with some other medicinal materials, cultivators can use their heart to wash and refine, and they can refine a lot of Dan medicine. I have a prescription that can refine Huang Yu Bai Xue Dan, which can accelerate the production of small medicine and make it convenient for practitioners to enter the gate of Lian Jing Hua Qi."

  "Will the extract from the jujube fruit work?" asked Lai Jixue.

  "It should be okay, you have kumquat extract?" Song Qi was somewhat surprised.

  "No, but this time the special department promised me that if I help, they'll give me a few. Otherwise, do you think I'd agree to it so easily? Liu younger brother, if you go, I'll ask for a few more!" Lai Jixue said.

  "After the country extracts it using scientific methods, I'm afraid what we get is diluted, right? Does it affect its efficacy? As a martial artist, does Huang Ya Bai Xue Dan still work?" asked Liu Zhi Zhu.

  "Little brother, martial arts is also a kind of cultivation. When you practice to a deep level, you naturally enter the Tao through martial arts. After breaking through and transforming your energy, the next step is usually to embrace the elixir, where your qi and blood condense into a single elixir pearl, which can be considered as entering the gate of cultivation." Song Qi explained.

  "In that case, it's possible to make this deal with a special department!" said Liu Zhi.

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