Chapter 191: Serious Rabbit

Li Qi, on Chan Zhi's side, was analyzing the demonic thoughts of the Hundred Demons.

Meanwhile, Shen Shuibi had already arrived at Guangyang City.

She wasn't as cautious as Li Qi; instead, she sprinted all the way, directly reaching Guangyang.

Li Qi, upon reaching the city's edge, would always obediently land and proceed on foot, but Shen Shuibi didn't know, or if she did, she didn't care about this taboo.

She traveled by wind all the way, transforming into a rainbow light, leaving a trail in the sky.

At this moment, the city guard commander was yawning and playing cards with his colleagues.

Few people would cause trouble in Guangyang City; on the contrary, merchants coming and going would desperately curry favor with the city guard.

Lots of money and little work—that was what this position was about.

In the past, he still had many grand ambitions, but after sitting in this position for over thirty years, he had long become pot-bellied, and his Eighth-Grade Martial Dao Cultivator cultivation had also become rusty.

However, just then, a soldier from outside came rushing in, stumbling and crawling.

“Commander! There... there's a遁光 (escape light) heading towards Guangyang City!”

The soldier hurriedly knelt down and shouted at the commander, who was at the card table.

The plump officer's face showed annoyance, and he reprimanded, “What are you shouting about? What escape light? Didn't I tell you that anyone who dares to fly in Guangyang City's no-fly zone has backing? They might be some young master, understand!?”

Upon hearing this, the soldier immediately understood the commander's meaning. He stammered, “Then, Commander, we just ignore it? Pretend not to see it?”

“New here, aren't you? Then I won't pursue you for disturbing my enjoyment. I'll give you a piece of advice: close your eyes and plug your ears, and you'll live longer!” the plump officer said.

As soon as he said this, the surrounding card players laughed happily, and the atmosphere instantly became very cheerful.

The plump officer, exasperated, quickly waved his hand and said to the soldier, “Get lost! You've ruined my luck with cards! If you do something so disappointing again next time, I'll revoke your position!”

The soldier quickly ran off, afraid of incurring his wrath.

Thus, the escape light, visible to the entire city, nonchalantly rushed into Guangyang City, and not a single person in the entire Guangyang City stopped her.

It wasn't that there were no other Eighth-Grades, but they all felt that since the city guard didn't stop her, it meant she must have special permission.

The city guard, however, felt that since this person dared to enter like this, she definitely had backing.

With both sides ignoring her, Rabbit flew in as if no one else was present.

However, Shen Shuibi didn't feel that anything was amiss.

She had always done it this way, and no one had ever stopped her.

“Find... Wang Baiyan, he's from Jinlang Sect,” Shen Shuibi thought to herself.

“Wang Baiyan, Wang Baiyan, Wang Baiyan, Jinlang Sect, Jinlang Sect, Jinlang Sect...” she murmured, afraid she might forget.

However, halfway through her murmuring, she suddenly slapped her head, remembering something: “Oh right, I can't let others see me. Li Qi said it needs to be secretive. This is Guangyang City, someone else's territory.”

Thinking this, she cast a spell on herself.

The Qi Concealment Art—the first time she met Li Qi, she used this trick to hide in the black mist.

This trick could conceal all her Qi fluctuations, making her seem as if she didn't exist.

Similar to a stealth bomber, she was still visible to the naked eye, but it was very difficult to detect her with detection spells. Even Li Qi only sensed her through the power of Dao.

Originally, if Li Qi hadn't discovered her, she would have secretly slipped away from the edge of the black mist, but she didn't expect to be grabbed by Li Qi.

However, it could be considered a good thing.

No, it should be said that there was no difference.

In any case, that Grand Invoker wouldn't let her leave.

With these thoughts swirling in her mind, and simultaneously simulating the method for restoring her Yang Nascent Soul, Shen Shuibi used less than one ten-thousandth of her brain's memory to begin finding her way and finding the person.

Rabbit was never stupid.

It was just that almost all the time, her brain capacity was used to ponder matters related to Dao and academics.

Her Yin Nascent Soul, with the help of the moon soul fragments Li Qi helped her retrieve, had already recovered, but there was still much work to be done to transform the Yin Nascent Soul into a Yang Nascent Soul.

The Yang Nascent Soul leads the brain palace, the divine guide, the Nascent Soul wanders in the heavens, moving to be born.

The Yin Nascent Soul quietly stabilizes the form, born from nothingness, thus forming the Yang Nascent Soul.

It requires Yang Qi to be offered externally, Yin Qi to be formed internally, the two phenomena to alternate, intertwining the primal spirit, the inner truth to guard, the nine orifices to receive life, preserving the soul and solidifying the spirit, all gods resting peacefully, safeguarding the three passes, with spiritual essence abundant, ascending with the gods, all reaching the Jade Purity.

After everything is done, swallow the Qi thirty-nine times to stabilize the thirty-nine apertures, allowing the Qi to moisten and spread throughout the body. If one can abandon burdens and not be bound by worldly dust, stabilize the spirit and solidify the soul, cutting off Death Qi from the nine apertures, and stabilizing the life palace at the upper pass, then the Yang Nascent Soul can be achieved.

The current problem was that her thirty-nine apertures were almost shattered into ninety-three apertures.

As for the three passes and nine orifices, let alone preserving them, they were already gone. Now, even the meridians in her Physical Body were broken into segments, and she relied on constantly finding ways to maintain her vitality every day.

If it weren't this serious, she wouldn't even have such a frail Physical Body, and her strength would be less than Li Qi's.

If her Physical Body were intact, and only her cultivation was gone, then with her Fifth-Grade Physical Body, she could form a small fist and punch Chan Zhi to death.

The gap between Seventh-Grade and Fifth-Grade was already too great to describe in words.

Unfortunately, talking about that was useless now. This was her current situation, and she could only take it slowly.

Therefore, over ninety-nine percent of Shen Shuibi's energy was spent in her mind combining different Yin and Yang trigrams, then forming different methods, and then trying them one by one to see which one was useful to her.

Only a very small portion of her energy would be allocated to deal with external matters, which made her appear dazed.

Just like now.

Shen Shuibi landed in an unpopulated area and drifted through the streets like a ghost, searching.

She planned to conduct a carpet search, examining every signboard on the street to find Jinlang Sect.

Shouldn't be a problem, right?

She thought to herself.

She walked aimlessly like this, street after street.

After about an hour, she had wandered through a dozen streets, looking at every signboard and every storefront, but she still hadn't found the so-called Jinlang Sect.

Shen Shuibi became a little anxious.

Under normal circumstances, she wouldn't be anxious.

For her, time was very cheap; it was common for her to zone out for decades.

But now it was different. Li Qi had been captured, and she couldn't find the method he instructed her to use to rescue him.

What's going on?

Rabbit became anxious because of this.

So, she stopped her deduction of the repair methods.

The previously dazed Rabbit, wandering the streets, suddenly had a sparkle in her eyes, even a faint glint shining within them.

The work software was shut down; now, all the occupied memory was released.

“Jinlang Sect... Li Qi came to Guangyang City for provisions. Based on this motive, he would have reason to proactively contact people related to grain. Therefore, it can be inferred that Jinlang Sect is at least related to the grain industry.”

Her mind immediately began to turn flexibly.

If it was related to the grain industry, then there would certainly be a large amount of transportation and warehousing business.

Almost in an instant, a map of the entire Guangyang City appeared in Shen Shuibi's mind. The moment she swept across the sky, she had already surveyed the entire city with her peripheral vision. She had forgotten it before, but now that memory was freed up, she easily recalled all the memories.

Photographic memory was the most basic thing for her.

Every street, every intersection, all the landmarks, and areas of the entire Guangyang City clearly appeared in her mind.

“Warehousing and logistics, the required area and roads...”

She silently recited, immediately listing a series of roads, and then comparing them.

Two moments later, she immediately identified her target.

Through statistics, analysis, and listing all possibilities, she quickly devised the most probable and shortest patrol route.

In just four or five seconds, Shen Shuibi transformed from aimlessly wandering and searching to purposefully and targeted searching.

She walked quickly through the streets, almost creating a gust of wind.

She chose not to fly or use spells to travel because, after she started using her brain, she became aware of the abnormality of the nearby pagoda.

That place should be where Chan Zhi, whom Li Qi mentioned, was located.

A Seventh-Grade Buddhist Cultivator.

Troublesome. It's best not to alarm the other party. She had just flown over, so she should not have been discovered.

She drew her conclusion from a professional perspective: that pagoda was still internally sealed. Although it looked unchanged from the outside, in Shen Shuibi's eyes, it was actually completely isolated from the inside and outside. The true body of that pagoda was currently in an outer domain, separated from the outside world.

This was probably luck; she hadn't been seen.

Then she should be even more careful after that.

The other party had no reason not to act after seeing her, and if he acted, she would be helpless.

So, she should try her best not to use her own cultivation and rely more on locals to get things done.

These arrangements were made in an instant; Rabbit had almost instantaneously made all the arrangements.

A few minutes later, she arrived at her first destination.

“Cloth shop... no.” She just glanced at it, confirmed it wasn't a granary but a cloth shop, and then turned to leave.

However, after walking for less than another minute, she was stopped.

Several shifty-eyed, shabbily dressed, swaggering street thugs blocked Shen Shuibi.

The leader looked her up and down, revealing a covetous expression: “Miss, I see you've been running around in a hurry to many places. Do you have nowhere to live, or nowhere to eat?”

Another person on the side chimed in with a grin: “If you have nowhere to live, why not come to our place? We can even find you a job.”

Such a beautiful woman, and she's even showing her face out here.

It's probably because of the situation at Zhenguan.

These kinds of things have been done a lot by these hooligans recently.

The average price at the brothels recently dropped by over two hundred coins, all thanks to their hard work.

And now, they surrounded Shen Shuibi as if they had seen gold.

They had never seen such a beautiful woman in their lives.

If she were sent over, she would probably be the courtesan queen for the next ten years, and the commission would come pouring in.

So, they observed for a full hour, and after confirming that Shen Shuibi was completely alone, had no cultivation, and was running around like a headless chicken, they finally made their move.

And the moment Shen Shuibi saw them, her eyes lit up.

Searching alone was simply too slow after all.

So, Shen Shuibi nodded: “Really?”

Those people seemed not to have expected this beauty to be so agreeable, and they all chuckled, immediately saying, “Of course!”

Then, they led Shen Shuibi away from the place.

After that, it would be to dress her up. If she was obedient, everything would be easy. If not, they had their own methods to deal with her.

Their punishments left no visible marks on the body, but the women would often be so ashamed they wished to die.

No woman could withstand it.

— — — — — — — — — —

It was afternoon.

The setting sun cast warm, comfortable twilight rays.

Wang Baiyan was in his residence.

He had a leisurely demeanor, very relaxed.

He wrote and painted, dusted his inkstone, burned incense and brewed tea, arranged flowers in vases, hooked up curtains, and did some light chores.

He didn't leave all these tasks to his maids because it was good for the body. When the body has small tasks from time to time, the bones and Bloodline do not stagnate, as the saying goes, “Flowing water does not rot, and a door hinge does not get worm-eaten.”

While brewing tea, he sat on a reclining chair, waiting for the hot water to slowly steep the tea leaves, then closed his eyes to rest, murmuring to himself:

“Hmm... calculating the time, there should be a conflict on Li Qi's side now, right? That demon monk probably reacted too. Hmm, with this, the Mountain and River Grand Formation can be broken, and this Guangyang Prefecture will face the Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest directly ~ I've made a fortune, a big fortune!”

It was clear that he was in a very good mood.

However, just then, a family servant ran over from outside and said to Wang Baiyan, “Master! Ma Wang of Xi Jiu Men has specifically asked to see you!”

Wang Baiyan frowned upon hearing this and asked, “What do you mean, specifically asked to see me? Doesn't he know me? If he really wanted to find me, wouldn't he just stroll over?”

Xi Jiu Men does not refer to a single School, but rather to nine Gangs that engage in dark and unsavory deeds, forming a united Gang. Its strength is quite considerable, similar to the Grain Alliance, and it also has an Eighth-Grade secretly supporting it from behind, controlling a series of businesses including beggars, human traffickers, brothels, civil engineering, casinos, and so on.

The head of this Xi Jiu Men is called Ma Wang. How this title came about is unknown to anyone, but the name has simply been passed down.

Ma Wang is the underground emperor of Guangyang City, and this 'Master' behind the Grain Alliance both hold a corner of the livelihood of Guangyang Prefecture.

Anyone living in Guangyang City cannot escape their industries.

The family servant nervously said, “No, they've replaced him with a new Ma Wang!”

“A new Ma Wang?!” Wang Baiyan was startled.

The Xi Jiu Men's influence was deeply entrenched and complex; outsiders simply couldn't understand the power transfer. He knew the previous Ma Wang, who had high prestige and was very well-respected.

How could he be suddenly replaced?

“Replaced by whom? Which Sect Leader of Xi Jiu Men? No, that's impossible. Xi Jiu Men has strict rules; it's absolutely impossible to seize power. What exactly happened? Tell me in detail!”

“We're not sure what happened, but the new Ma Wang is a woman, and as soon as she took over, she specifically asked to see you, Master!”

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