The vermilion lacquer gate of Liu Shi Yu’s mansion was slowly pulled open by people from inside.

From within the door, Yun Yang was the first to emerge, with a touch of arrogance: “The evidence is here. I will send these evidences to the capital via eight hundred *li* urgent dispatch, and the Emperor will decide!”

Liu Mingxian sat on his war horse, the expression beneath his filial cap reflected bright and dark by the firelight, uncertain.

He looked at the stack of evidences in Yun Yang’s hand, veins throbbing on his forehead. He hadn’t expected Yun Yang and Jiao Tu to actually find evidence. At this point, if he were to seek revenge for the old master, there was no longer a justifiable reason.

However, he suddenly felt something was wrong… He raised his head to look behind Yun Yang, where there was a masked person with their head lowered.

Who was this?

Why were they wearing a mask?

Just as Liu Mingxian wanted to look more carefully, he suddenly saw Yun Yang take a small step, completely blocking the masked person, and looked at him with a half-smile: “Adult Liu, are you not going to retreat yet?”

Liu Mingxian was silent, without the slightest intention of retreating.

Both sides were at swords drawn and bows bent, all waiting for him to speak. Whether to fight or retreat, it was all in his one thought.

Liu Mingxian calmly asked: “Where is Liang Gou Er?”

The young man holding the reins beside the horse said nervously: “Second Uncle, Liang Mao Er just came to deliver a message, saying that Liang Gou Er has already drawn his knife against the eunuch party, and is currently resting in Red Clothes Alley.”

Liu Mingxian’s face darkened. He sized up the Fish Dragon Guards of the Chief Criminal Division who had already drawn their knives, and said through clenched teeth: “Tell Liang Gou Er to roll out of the Liu family with that broken knife of his! There is no place for him to stay in the Liu family!”

However, he still didn’t plan to give up and actually urged his horse forward again, leading several hundred Liu family members to press on.

At this time, Lin Chao Qing opened his mouth: “Adult Liu, do not implicate the entire Liu family. You had better wait for Liu Ge Lao to return to Luo City and ask him, then decide what to do.”

Liu Mingxian stared straight at Lin Chao Qing. Finally, he cupped his hand from a distance: “I, Liu, will wait for disposal at home. Return to the mansion! Arrange the funeral matters for the old master!”

As he left, he couldn’t help but turn his head to size things up again, only to see Lin Chao Qing talking in a low voice with that masked person.

“Investigate that masked person!” Liu Mingxian’s tone was ferocious: “Yun Yang and Jiao Tu, these two living King Yamas, are fierce in killing, but I have never heard that they also have the ability to search for crimes and investigate evidence. That masked person must have played a role in this. We must definitely investigate him!”

“Understood, Second Uncle.”

At a certain moment, Liu Mingxian even had an intuition: if it weren’t for this masked person tonight, perhaps everything would have been different.

After the Liu family people left, Lin Chao Qing also flipped onto his horse. He straightened his straw raincoat and looked down at Chen Ji: “Young man, my promise is effective within two months. Perhaps you won’t need two months to understand everyone in the Secret Spy Division.”

Yun Yang’s face turned black: “Who are you being sarcastic about? Apart from attacking and impeaching colleagues, what else can you, the Chief Criminal Division, do?”

Lin Chao Qing led the Chief Criminal Division eastward without speaking, that dark straw raincoat like black wings folded behind him, travel-worn he came, travel-worn he went.

As he urged his horse to leave, a Fish Dragon Guard under a bamboo hat smiled at Chen Ji. They respected capable people.

But Chen Ji was destined not to work for the Chief Criminal Division because he didn’t need an official position, and never thought of serving the imperial power.

He now wanted to cultivate more, and cultivation required money, which the Chief Criminal Division couldn’t provide.

The sound of horse hooves faded into the distance. Yun Yang glanced at Chen Ji: “Once you join the Chief Criminal Division, you become the enemy of all officials in the entire court. You can only be a lone minister your whole life. Since ancient times, how many lone ministers have had a good end?”

Chen Ji responded calmly: “Many thanks for Adult Yun Yang’s reminder.”

Yun Yang asked: “Do you think there might be other Liu family members involved?”

Chen Ji shook his head: “I don’t know.”

Yun Yang asked again: “Does the Jing Dynasty have any other means of transmitting intelligence?”

Chen Ji shook his head again: “I don’t know.”

“Will you hide a hand again, like last time at the Zhou mansion?”

Chen Ji affirmed: “No.”

Yun Yang laughed in anger. This boy in front of him was far from as honest as he looked, but he couldn’t do anything.

He smiled, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Chen Ji: “Tomorrow night, someone will send fifty taels of silver to Taiping Medical Hall. Go.”

“Wait a moment! Can I have eight *wen* money in advance?” Chen Ji asked.

Yun Yang’s face was strange as he counted out eight copper coins from his sleeve: “Are you crazy poor? You even ask for eight *wen* money? This counts as giving it to you.”

Chen Ji smiled sincerely: “Thanks, then I will take my leave.”

Jiao Tu suddenly felt that Chen Ji’s smile at this moment was the most sincere.

Yun Yang said: “Wait, don’t go yet.”

Before Chen Ji could react, he saw him draw a dagger from his sleeve and it brushed past Chen Ji’s ear. A lock of hair fell into his hand: “Now you can go.”

Chen Ji was silent for a moment, finally saying nothing and leaving.

After Chen Ji walked far away, Jiao Tu couldn’t help but ask: “Why not take him into the Secret Spy Division and transfer him under our command? We can make him work casually, where do we need to give him fifty taels of silver as a reward… How many beautiful clothes can fifty taels of silver buy? I can’t wear them all in several years!”

“No,” Yun Yang denied: “This boy’s ability… he is ruthless towards others, even more ruthless towards himself, and he is also smart. This is what the Inner Minister adult likes the most. If we really let him enter the Secret Spy Division, who knows when he will ride on our heads.”

“But the Twelve Zodiacs have no position,” Jiao Tu said.

Yun Yang said in a low voice: “I heard that the Sick Tiger is about to retire… I am really confused, how he will feel about being able to replace the Sick Tiger’s position.”

Jiao Tu suddenly said: “We must confirm whether he is a Jing Dynasty spy or not, so that we can use him with peace of mind afterwards.”

Yun Yang said calmly: “I have already thought of this step. Last night, I sent a message by carrier pigeon to Meng Ji in Kaifeng Prefecture. He will arrive in Luo City soon. Having him interrogate him can ensure absolute safety.”

“What price will we pay to invite Meng Ji to come?”

“A very big price… Go, it’s not early.”

In a blink of an eye, the originally lively entrance was only left with tree leaves fluttering in the autumn wind.

It was as if all people were destined, after the noise and feasting, only desolation and emptiness remained.

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Chen Ji walked in a dark alley. As he walked, a black furry little cat appeared on the wall, biting a book and a ginseng in its mouth.

The youth walked on the ground, and it followed slowly on the wall. Under the moonlight, the shadow of one person and one cat, one in front of the other, as if they had some tacit understanding, some rhythm.

Dark Clouds loosened its mouth, and the book and ginseng fell from the air.

Chen Ji silently raised his hand and caught the book and ginseng in the air. The ice flow along the way turned a small half of the ginseng into four transparent beads.

He stuffed the book and the remaining ginseng into his embrace, then threw the beads one by one to the edge of the wall. Dark Clouds walked and accurately caught the beads in its mouth.

One person and one cat were like a rehearsed set of actions, smooth as flowing water. The warm flow transmitted by Dark Clouds to Chen Ji’s body suddenly lit up the fire of the fourth lamp furnace beside his *dantian*!

In an instant, the fire of the four lamp furnaces released vague flames, like chains linking up the fire of the four lamp furnaces, like a complete cage, completely sealing the entire *dantian*.

The fire of these four lamp furnaces seemed to have some natural bond. When they linked up, they actually produced a huge warm flow that washed Chen Ji’s flesh and blood and bones, making him sweep away the fatigue of the night.

Chen Ji raised his head and silently pointed a direction to Dark Clouds.

One person and one cat suddenly separated at a T-junction, one forward, one to the left.

The next moment, Chen Ji ran madly!

Immediately after, urgent footsteps sounded from the thin fog dozens of steps behind him. There was just a vague figure quickly attacking.

Chen Ji detoured in the darkness, trying to shake off the other in the intricate streets.

But the tracker could always find the correct one at the fork. He seemed to already hear the other’s breathing sound behind him.

Not good, he couldn’t run away.

The other’s footsteps were getting closer and closer. Chen Ji judged that the other’s speed was higher than his own, at least at the Secret Spy level.

He knew that someone would track him, and even wanted to kill him, so the ginseng that he originally planned to keep to supplement the medical hall’s loss was also used by him without hesitation to convert ice flow.

People must first live, everything then has meaning.

After coming to this world, Chen Ji seemed to have encountered a hell mode start. Even if he hid in the medical hall and didn’t go out, danger would also find its way to him one by one.

But if life was destined to be like this, then he chose not to evade.

The sound of footsteps behind him was already very close, Chen Ji’s eyes were only calm.

When the footsteps were getting closer and closer, when there were only three body positions left between the two people, he suddenly turned around and rushed towards the comer.

The narrow alley could normally only accommodate two people walking at the same time. Both sides were high residential walls, and the ground was an uneven stone path.

The comer did not expect the prey to dare to turn back and fight. He subconsciously went to draw the saber at his waist, but before he could draw it out, his wrist was pressed by Chen Ji.

The killer’s strength was originally much greater than Chen Ji’s, but the inertia of the collision between the two sides made Chen Ji’s hand have greater strength when he pressed it.

With a clang, the saber was not yet drawn out and was pressed back hard again!

Under the dim moonlight, the middle-aged killer’s pupils suddenly contracted. He couldn’t help but look at Chen Ji, only to find that Chen Ji was actually staring back at him.

These were not eyes that a prey should have.

The middle-aged killer’s figure withdrew backwards, and along the way, he lifted his leg and kicked Chen Ji in the chest, kicking the youth backward to roll away.

He drew his saber again, but this time the saber was drawn to halfway, and Chen Ji, after rolling a somersault, actually bent down and rushed over without the slightest pause.

With a clang, the saber was pressed back again.

In consecutive two times, the killer actually didn’t even draw his saber!

The killer sneered in his heart. He simply abandoned the use of the saber and punched Chen Ji’s chest consecutively.

In his eyes, the youth in front of him had his mid-section wide open, his whole body full of flaws, with no killing experience at all.

The killer looked at Chen Ji again, only to find that the other’s eyes had no fear and pain, but actually excitement, and there seemed to be fire at the bottom of his eyes.

Chen Ji confirmed at this time that the cultivators in this world must be a minority. They hid in the back of this world and did not appear easily.

Otherwise, no matter who the person who wanted to kill him tonight was, they should not have just sent this “ordinary person”.

Compared to Lin Chao Qing and Yun Yang, this middle-aged killer was indeed only an ordinary person!

In an instant, Chen Ji endured the punches and actually counter-attacked, crashing into the killer’s embrace, and clamping the other’s arms hard under his armpits.

Just now!

A group of black shadows attacked from the wall. The killer turned back in shock. He thought there was someone in ambush behind him, but only saw a black small cat.

Before he could relax, the black cat’s figure had already brushed past him.

When the two interlocked, Dark Clouds’ sharp claws cut across the killer’s neck.

Sizzle.

A swipe of fresh blood sprayed on the wall.

Chen Ji released the killer and sat on the ground, gasping for breath, and coldly watched the killer cover his neck unbelievably and back away, slowly leaning against the wall and falling down.

The middle-aged killer saw the black cat lightly leap into the youth’s embrace, and he unwillingly asked: “Xing Guan?”

Chen Ji frowned, *Xing Guan*? Is this a general term for cultivators in this world?