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#236 - Fire Dragon Burns Warehouse

"Not good!"

"Not good, Master! Something's happened!"

Accompanied by a cry of alarm, the steward rushed to the top floor.

On the top floor, Zou Cifeng was sitting cross-legged in meditation.

After waiting all night, he was already feeling restless.

He looked at Zou Cifeng, hesitating several times to speak.

Clearly, he was afraid that after revealing what had happened, he would be unable to face Zou Cifeng's anger.

Zou Cifeng raised an eyebrow at the sight:

"Speak!"

The steward trembled all over and could only cry out:

"Master, that Demon of the Wind from last night, he actually sneaked into the manor, and..."

Speaking up to here, the steward dared not continue.

Zou Cifeng's heart pounded wildly, he seemed to have a bad premonition.

"Speak!!!!"

He couldn't help but roar, and a powerful aura swept across the entire area.

Even the countless martial artists outside the high tower were instantly shocked by this aura, their faces pale and their foreheads sweating.

Only then did the steward say in a crying voice:

"And that wicked thief, I don't know what method he used to discover a secret room under the manor's well."

"That secret room, even we didn't know about it."

"That wicked thief, the Demon of the Wind, actually found it and looted the secret room clean!"

The secret room under the well of Xiafei Manor was unknown to anyone in the entire manor except for Zou Cifeng.

Until last night, when a strong wind blew through the manor, and a booming sound came from the well.

By the time the steward led people to the well, the strong wind had already gone away.

When the steward mustered up the courage to look down the well, he discovered that the stone wall of the well had been broken open, and behind the hole was a secret room.

This scene not only puzzled the steward, but also everyone else in the manor, including Zou Cifeng's own son, did not know that there was such a secret room in Xiafei Manor?

The steward seemed to understand something, and immediately rushed to Dongzhou City to report to Zou Cifeng.

"What?!?!"

Zou Cifeng stood up in an instant, his eyes wide open.

He knew better than anyone else, because in that secret room, the real treasures of Xiafei Manor were stored!

Soul Jade!!!!

That was the treasure passed down from their ancestors!

"Are you sure... it's been completely looted?"

"The things on the stone platform... are they still there?"

Zou Cifeng asked in a trembling voice.

He still held on to the last glimmer of hope in his heart.

The steward was already trembling like a sieve.

Facing Zou Cifeng's expectant gaze, he could only shake his head helplessly:

"On the stone platform, there's nothing left..."

Hearing this, Zou Cifeng was completely frozen, as if struck by lightning.

His last fantasy was completely shattered!

His heirloom was actually stolen!

He placed a fake Soul Jade here, intending to lure the snake out of its hole.

But who knew that the dog thief, the Demon of the Wind, would take the opportunity to ransack his house and steal his real Soul Jade!

"Pfft!!!!"

In his anger, Zou Cifeng couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

In that instant, he almost went into Qi deviation.

"Master!"

The steward was shocked to see this and hurriedly wanted to step forward to help him.

But Zou Cifeng suddenly raised his palm and was about to slap it towards the steward's head:

"Waste!!!!"

The steward closed his eyes in fright, already prepared for death.

But in the end, Zou Cifeng's hand did not fall.

His palm slammed heavily on the ground.

"Bang!!!!"

Spiderweb-like cracks instantly appeared on the ground, and the stone slabs shattered!

If Zou Cifeng hadn't stopped in time, this entire tower would have been collapsed by his palm.

Zou Cifeng's face was pale, and he said weakly:

"Immediately... issue the order! Martial World Assassination Order!"

"Whoever can kill that Demon of the Wind, this old man can fulfill any request of his!"

Hearing this, the steward was shocked:

"Master, that Demon of the Wind is a Second-Rank martial artist, we... we can't afford to offend him!"

Hearing this, Zou Cifeng spat out another mouthful of blood in his anxiety.

He himself had said the words 'Second-Rank martial artist'.

But now, even his subordinates were afraid of his lie.

Can't afford to offend him?

He, a dignified Third-Rank martial artist, can't afford to offend that guy who is useless except for his lightness skill?

"Second-Rank my ass!"

"That guy's realm is far below mine, he's simply insignificant!"

"Announce to the martial world that whoever can capture the Demon of the Wind alive and bring him to me, I am willing to teach him a Earth-Rank martial art!"

At this time, Zou Cifeng had completely disregarded the face he lost in the lightness skill competition.

In his heart, there was only the Soul Jade passed down from his ancestors!

The steward was shocked to hear this.

Of course, he knew about that Earth-Rank martial art, that was the world-renowned martial art of Xiafei Manor!

This made the steward want to open his mouth to persuade him.

But when he met Zou Cifeng's eyes, which seemed to want to eat people, he immediately didn't dare to say another word and hurriedly fled the high tower.

And after he left, Zou Cifeng couldn't help but roar again:

"Ah!!!!!!"

"Bastard!!!!!!"

"I, Zou Cifeng, swear that I will cut you into a thousand pieces and scatter your bones to the wind!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!"

His howling and roaring voice spread out of the high tower, causing the eardrums of the martial artists outside to buzz.

Everyone showed a look of horror, wondering what kind of change this always steady number one expert in Dongzhou had encountered?

For a time, the entire Dongzhou City couldn't help but speculate.

........

On the other side.

Liang Jin was slowly riding his horse on the official road.

He sat on the horse's back, playing with a blue jade stone carved into the shape of a shield, only the size of a palm.

This jade stone was exactly what Liang Jin had obtained from Xiafei Manor last night.

"This is the Soul Jade?"

"Truly peculiar!"

Liang Jin could feel a stream of internal force slowly surging within the blue soul jade.

He had always thought that only the human body could store internal force.

Even if a highly skilled martial artist could release internal force to kill enemies, the internal force released from the body could not exist in the world for a long time and would soon dissipate on its own.

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But the soul jade in his hand could actually store internal force like a human body, without overflowing and dissipating.

This was strange enough.

"It is said that soul jade is also graded, white, blue, purple, and gold."

"This blue soul jade is not the worst."

"But… how should this thing be used?"

Liang Jin obtained the soul jade, but he did not know the specific method of using it.

Although he had heard an old man in Dongzhou say that as long as you crushed the soul jade, you could use it.

But the old man who said this had never seen a soul jade himself, and was just repeating what he had heard from others.

Especially since soul jade was extremely precious, and Liang Jin only had one piece, he would naturally not easily use it for experimentation.

"Never mind, I'll wait until I return to Dragon Transformation Island."

"The elders of the Dragon Transformation Sect are knowledgeable and experienced, and maybe they have privately hidden soul jade."

"If I ask them for advice, I will definitely be able to learn the correct method of use."

Immediately, Liang Jin put away the soul jade.

Now that he had the soul jade in hand, Liang Jin knew without thinking that Zou Cifeng must be furious and would want to hunt him down all over the world.

As long as Liang Jin did not use "Wind-Stepping Shadowless Foot" on a large scale, he believed that Zou Cifeng would not be able to find him.

Soon.

Liang Jin rode his horse to an intersection.

Ahead were two roads, one leading to Azure Wave City, which was an important base of the Dragon Transformation Sect outside the island.

The other road led to the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion.

Liang Jin reined in his horse and hesitated slightly which road to take.

From Liang Qizhi, Liang Jin had already confirmed many of his guesses.

Although Liang Qizhi did not say it very directly.

But as an investigator with rich experience in handling cases, he also subtly expressed his speculation.

And this speculation was very consistent with Liang Jin's guess.

Combined with the two pieces of information Liang Jin obtained, he roughly knew what had happened.

One piece of information was that the embezzlement of Wang Xu, the deacon in charge of overseas medicinal material procurement for the Dragon Transformation Sect, was difficult to conceal, and he was preparing to do something big to balance the accounts before it was exposed.

The other piece of information was that the purple ganoderma used by Hundred Flowers Hall to refine Dragon Scale Pills was about to run out.

The matter mentioned in the second piece of information was related to the improvement of cultivation and welfare benefits of the middle and lower-level disciples of the Dragon Transformation Sect, and should have been reported to the main hall long ago.

But this matter was strangely silent.

"Perhaps I should think from a different perspective, if I were Wang Xu."

"Then what should I do so that this matter will not be exposed, or even if it is exposed, I will not be held responsible?"

Liang Jin thought for a moment, and he had the answer in his mind—Fire Dragon Burns the Granary!

Fire Dragon Burns the Granary is a very crude means of balancing accounts.

In ancient times, officials embezzled granary grain, causing the granary to be severely in deficit. At the critical moment before the superiors came to inspect, a fire would suddenly appear and burn the granary and all the evidence.

And all the eyewitnesses could prove that they had personally seen a fire dragon descend from the sky and dance wildly in the granary, which caused the granary to be completely destroyed.

With the granary burned down, the matter of the deficit could naturally not be investigated further.

If that procurement deacon Wang Xu saw that the matter of embezzlement was about to be exposed, I am afraid that he would also do something similar in desperation.

It's just that Wang Xu, in all likelihood, chose the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion to act as this "fire dragon".

So in the information of the Six Doors, it was the Dragon Transformation Sect that took the initiative to attack the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion, and claimed that the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion had snatched many of their precious medicinal materials.

In the mouths of the disciples of the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion, the situation was also similar.

In this way, the matter of the medicinal material deficit could be completely attributed to the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion's snatching.

"The saying of the fire dragon is strange and chaotic, and cannot be verified."

"But the people of the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion are all living people and can be investigated."

"So in the situation that Wang Xu reported to the Dragon Transformation Sect, he would describe himself as a victim, and use the heavy casualties of the sect's disciples to cause a shock in the Dragon Transformation Sect."

"He also seized the mentality of the Dragon Transformation Sect's desire to intervene in the martial arts world of Dongzhou and urgently needed to establish prestige, and sent experts from the Dragon Transformation Sect to bloody suppress the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion and slaughter the entire sect."

"In this way, naturally, there is no way to verify the truth."

Liang Jin smiled slightly after understanding this.

This Wang Xu is really good at calculating.

Unfortunately, he did not expect that because of Li Xueqing's deliberate targeting, the Dragon Transformation Sect only sent Liang Jin, who was only in the fifth rank at the time, to solve the problem.

Liang Jin's martial power seemed insufficient, and he would probably choose to negotiate first.

In that case, Wang Xu's matter might be exposed.

"If I were Wang Xu, then my next step must be to kill people and silence them in advance."

"But Wang Xu is only in the fifth rank, and it is difficult for him to slaughter the entire Tide Sound Martial Pavilion alone."

"Unless… he has helpers! Or powerful helpers!"

Liang Jin also remembered that the information about Wang Xu did mention that Wang Xu had accomplices.

Immediately, Liang Jin no longer hesitated, he rode his horse towards the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion.

This time, he was not here to uphold justice, but to be able to make contributions.

Since he wanted to make contributions, he had to be able to convince everyone.

Now, he only needed to go to the Tide Sound Martial Pavilion to find out the truth in order to obtain evidence.