143: Chapter 143 Flying Dragon Mansion

The Breakthrough in cultivation brought joy to Chen Hu.

However, he quickly calmed down.

He took out a cultivation multiplier card and activated it, obtaining a 5x cultivation effect.

He took out a soul nourishing pill, consumed it, and activated the Spirit Refining Art to absorb and refine it.

An hour later, he claimed the cultivation effect, obtaining a stream of pure Soul Power which fused into the pill within his Divine Soul, causing the pill's volume to expand slightly.

He then took out an intelligence card and activated it.

Today's intelligence: The Iron Blade Sect Leader Chen Qiu is extremely suspicious and worries that his subordinates will betray him, so he has sent people to monitor the Elders and Hall Masters. After discovering Xue Fang's abnormality, he intensified his surveillance. When Xue Fang was persuading the other two Hall Masters, He Jie and Zhao He, to defect to the Fierce Tiger Gang, they were overheard by Chen Qiu's spies.

Upon learning the news, Chen Qiu intends to assassinate Xue Fang to serve as an example to others and prevent other Hall Masters and Elders from betraying him.

"This intelligence is quite long today!"

After reading this intelligence, Chen Hu couldn't help but tease inwardly.

Although Xue Fang betrayed Chen Qiu, Chen Hu didn't have any other opinions about him.

After all, as long as the other party becomes a member of the Fierce Tiger Gang, under the influence of the faction BUFF, they will become increasingly loyal to him.

Therefore, Xue Fang still needs to be saved.

However, he does not need to intervene personally.

Next, Chen Hu activated a connection card, obtaining a Ding-grade connection, which he immediately discarded.

He then activated an identity card; this time, the identity was slightly more Advanced, but it was still just an ordinary Bone Refining Realm Martial Artist.

Chen Hu used it directly.

Following that, he transformed directly into this Bone Refining Martial Artist.

The Cultivation Technique, Martial Skill, and even the experiences the other party had cultivated appeared in his mind.

After understanding the other party's memories, Chen Hu's expression became somewhat solemn.

Because this Bone Refining Martial Artist was from Feilong Prefecture, one of the four prefectures under the jurisdiction of Lingzhou.

Compared to the prosperous Linjiang Prefecture, Feilong Prefecture is relatively poor overall due to its mountainous terrain.

Most of its income comes from agriculture.

But coincidentally, this year, Feilong Prefecture has experienced widespread drought.

Leading to a massive shortage and failure in the autumn harvest.

A large number of disaster victims and bandits have appeared.

Yet, most of the officials in Feilong Prefecture are corrupt.

Logically, when farmers have a poor harvest or crop failure, the government should reduce or exempt taxes.

But they refuse; not only do they not reduce taxes, but they also impose various miscellaneous taxes.

Forcing many farmers to even sell their sons and daughters just to be able to pay the taxes.

In order to collect taxes, the officials even caused many families to be broken and destroyed.

Many farmers who could not pay their taxes, seeing the miserable fate of others, left their registered residences with their families, becoming refugees.

A sect called the "Yellow Heaven Sect" took the opportunity to gather refugees and grow in strength.

Many knowledgeable people know that if this continues, I am afraid that rebel armies will appear within Feilong Prefecture.

He dispelled the identity of the Bone Refining Martial Artist.

Chen Hu took out a Lifespan card and activated it, obtaining 2 months of Lifespan.

He decisively added it to his own Lifespan.

Thinking that he had already accumulated quite a few treasure locations, Chen Hu decided to go and retrieve all the treasures from these treasure locations tonight.

Possessing the Earth Escape Divine Ability and Spiritual Sense, it is much more convenient to retrieve treasures.

In less than half an hour.

Chen Hu had retrieved the treasures from all the treasure locations.

Unfortunately, they were all just ordinary gold and silver items.

Regarding this, Chen Hu was not disappointed, because Chen Hu knew that the treasure locations provided by the treasure hunting card were all ownerless.

And the rare, ownerless treasures within Linjiang Prefecture are limited.

How could there be so many rare treasures for him to dig up?

Meanwhile.

In the backyard of the Prefect's office.

Prefect Yang Ze looked at his sleeping concubine beside him, sneaked up, and came to the study.

Then, he opened the secret room door via a mechanism and entered the secret room.

But when he lit the lamp in the secret room, Prefect Yang Ze was suddenly dumbfounded.

"Where is my gold and silver jewelry?"

Because he discovered that the gold and silver jewelry that had filled nearly half of the secret room had actually disappeared.

"Ah, my money!"

Prefect Yang Ze let out a wail, almost fainting from anger.

He managed to steady his body with difficulty, and seeing the empty secret room, he almost burst into tears.

This was the treasure he had worked hard to accumulate for several years.

"Which damn bastard stole it all, not leaving me even a little bit!"

After a while.

Prefect Yang Ze gradually calmed down and began to ponder who had stolen his treasure.

Because the entrance to the secret room was in his study.

When he hid the money, he moved it into the secret room himself; apart from him, no one else knew about the entrance to the secret room.

Secondly, he spent most of his time in the study.

It was impossible for others to open the secret room entrance and enter the secret room right under his nose.

Therefore, for a moment, he really had no object of suspicion.

Suddenly.

A flash of inspiration crossed Prefect Yang Ze's mind.

At noon today, the Young Marquis left without saying goodbye.

Could it be that he was feeling guilty after doing something bad?

As a Prefect, he knew that there were still some mysterious treasures in this world.

For example, among these treasures, there is a type called storage treasures.

Storage treasures contain space inside.

Someone who could move the gold and silver jewelry in the secret room without anyone knowing must have used a storage treasure.

Young Marquis Wei Wuji is a Young Marquis; with his status and position, he is qualified to come into contact with storage treasures, and he might even have one on him.

Furthermore, his guards are all in the Organ Refining Realm.

It would be very easy to make the people in his residence fall into a deep sleep without making a sound.

"It's him, it must be him!"

Prefect Yang Ze shouted with red eyes: "You beast, I treated you with good intentions, yet you actually swept away all of my savings!"

The more Prefect Yang Ze thought about it, the more he hated him, wishing he could hack Young Marquis Wei Wuji into pieces.

But gradually, his hatred subsided, because he simply could not do anything to Young Marquis Wei Wuji.

First of all, he had no direct evidence.

Secondly, even if he had evidence, he would not dare to make it public.

Because the gold and silver jewelry in the secret room were all obtained through years of corruption.

Once he made it public, he wouldn't need Young Marquis Wei Wuji to deal with him; the imperial court would deal with him.

At that time, not only would he not get back the stolen gold and silver jewelry, but he wouldn't even be able to keep his official position.

Therefore, he believed that Young Marquis Wei Wuji had calculated that he would not dare to make it public, which is why he had stolen all of his gold and silver jewelry.

"Sigh, all these years of work were for nothing!"

Prefect Yang Ze sighed softly and walked out of the secret room, looking dejected.

He didn't return to the bedroom either, but just sat in the study, dazed.

Time flew by.

It became early morning.

The date also reached the 13th of the month.

Chen Hu arrived at the Fierce Tiger Gang General Hall and sent someone to call Ye Fan over.

After planting a sub-Gu in his body, he instructed him to secretly follow Xue Fang, and if anyone tried to harm him, he was to save him.

"Yes!"

Ye Fan accepted the order and left.

After dismissing Ye Fan, Chen Hu came to the dungeon, locked onto the Green-Robed Elder with his Spiritual Sense, and copied an Advanced Earth-grade Martial Skill from him.

After copying all the Cultivation Techniques and Martial Skills from them, he could then kill them.

He returned to the office.

He transcribed the Advanced Earth-grade Martial Skill that was in his mind.

He brewed himself a cup of Dao Enlightenment Tea and began to casually comprehend this Martial Skill.

On the other side.

Ye Fan, following Chen Hu's order, began to secretly track Xue Fang.

He discovered that at noon, the other party had arranged to meet the other two Iron Blade Sect Hall Masters, He Jie and Zhao He, for a meal in a private room at a restaurant.